Woman punched in head while walking home at night left with horrific injuries
A woman suffered a broken nose, a fractured eye socket and temporary loss of vision after being knocked unconscious by a man while walking by herself in the early hours of the morning.
The unprovoked attack came as Shelley headed home in Nottingham on Saturday after celebrating St Patrick’s Day with friends.
The 43-year-old, who works as a bus driver, remembers a group of young men walking in the same direction as her on Mansfield Road.
She had ‘normal chit chat’ with one of them before another ‘turned round and smacked me in the face’.
The attacker’s friends called 999 and Shelley was taken to hospital around 4.15am.
‘I fell to the floor and passed out for a little while. I was covered in blood and my nose was to one side, I don’t remember getting to the hospital’, she said.
Shelley continued: ‘My face just looks a mess and I’ve got a chipped tooth as well.
‘I’ve got a pocket of blood behind my right eyeball so I keep losing vision in that eye.
‘I’m suffering from anxiety and depression anyway so it’s made it worse, plus I can’t go to work looking like this.’
Shelley is hoping cameras picked up the violent incident and says the group of men were ‘about student age’.
Nottinghamshire Police is investigating the ‘nasty’ attack, which took place near the junction with Bluecoat Street.
PC Lee Lane, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: ‘This was a nasty and unprovoked attack that left a woman needing hospital treatment.
‘This kind of violence is utterly inexcusable and we are working hard to track down the person or people responsible.
‘To this end we would like to speak to any witnesses who were in the area at the time, and particularly to drivers with dashcams who may have driven past the scene.’
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