Daily Mail
January 1, 2015
A 19-year-old student has been left scarred for life after a stranger followed her out of a nightclub and brutally attacked her with a knuckle duster.
Chloe Dutton, 19, was enjoying a Christmas night out in Southend, Essex, when the man followed her and her friends out of a nightclub, knocking two of them to the ground and striking her in the face.
She was left with horrific facial injuries and needed emergency plastic surgery on a wound from her eye to her cheek which was pouring with blood. She now faces further operations on a broken eye socket.
The incident occurred as Miss Dutton, from Westcliff, Essex, left Talk nightclub with two friends on Boxing Day and went to get a takeaway near Southend Bus Station.
They became aware they were being followed by a man and told him to stop pestering them.
However, he then knocked two of them to the ground before targeting Miss Dutton by punching her in the face with what is thought to be a knuckle duster.
The student, who is studying social work at Kent University, said: ‘I went out with two girlfriends on Boxing Night.
‘As we walked along the road we realised we were being followed. He kept trying to separate me from my friends.
‘My friends told him I wasn’t interested and to go away but he started attacking them. He got them on the floor and kicked them several times, then he attacked me.
‘The police and ambulance were called but the ambulance didn’t come. The police took us to hospital.’