Birmingham Mail
July 24, 2014
A barmaid has been left with a steel plate in her face after a brutal attack on a night out in Birmingham.
Lucy Wedge sustained a fractured cheekbone and suffered a black eye in the savage attack after leaving the Sobar Bar in the Arcadian Centre on Hurst Street.
The 22-year-old had to have her face rebuilt and needed cosmetic surgery after being violently punched in the face.
The barmaid had intervened to help a friend who had become embroiled in a row however ended up being floored after a man lashed out at her.
Lucy said: “I stepped in to stick up for her and he punched me in the face. I fell over and pulled my friend down with me and he ran off.”
She was taken to accident and emergency at City Hospital where she was treated for her injuries.
Ten days later she underwent surgery at QE Hospital to reconstruct the left side of her face.
She was in recovery for three weeks and still suffers numbness to the area.
“I woke up the next morning with black eye and numbness to my face.
“I spent four hours in A&E at City Hospital, had an x-ray and was referred to QE. I had to go straight away and that’s when they told me that my left cheekbone was fractured.
“I went back a week later, still in pain, and they told me that I was going to need an operation.
“Two days later they cut my jaw about an inch and moved it up and outwards, and put metal plate and screws in and stitched me up. So now have a metal face.
“The doctors said that if they hadn’t operated that there was little chance I would get feeling back in my face and that I would have ended up without a cheekbone.”
Lucy previously hit the headlines when customers at city pub The Victoria complained after she featured in a racy advert, which they said featured too much cleavage.
DC Justin Le Fort from Birmingham CID said: “This was a vicious assault in Birmingham city centre, which resulted in a young woman being seriously injured. We know from enquiries there were other people in the area at the time of the assault and we need these people to come forward with information to help identify this man.”
He is described as a black man, tall and wearing a white T-shirt and jeans.
West Midlands Police are appealing to clubbers who may have seen the assault, on May 4 between 3.30am and 4am, to contact them on 101.