It is an unfortunate fact of life that physical assaults are a daily occurrence around the globe. Whether it's a domestic incident, a drunken bar fight, or just a random attack in the street, law enforcement are used to dealing with all sorts of situations.
However, very few violent encounters are
as strange as this one.
Chloe Hammond, a 27-year-old glamour
model from Essex in the UK, was jailed this week over an assault in which she bit off part of another woman's earlobe.
The incident took place on March 19 when Hammond, who is also known as Chloe Rebelle, was driving through central London. She had been stopped in traffic behind the wheel of her Audi TT when she was approached by 56-year-old Julie Holloway.
According to reports, Holloway tapped on Hammond's window to complain about the younger woman using her phone while driving. Rather than complying with Holloway's request to put her phone away, Hammond was "verbally abusive" to the woman, and blared her horn before driving off.
But the encounter didn't end there.
Hammond stopped nearby to park her car, then returned to where Holloway had approached her on the street. She proceeded to kick the woman in the stomach, which caused her to double over in pain, then grabbed her hair and bit into her ear "like a dog with a chew toy".
Describing the attack in court, Holloway said:
"I do recall coming forward and then the next thing I know, she grabbed both sides of my head and then she lunged into my ear.
"I felt her bite my ear. I couldn’t get her off me because she just lunged on to my ear.
"There was blood all over me, there was blood all over one of the girls and I just didn’t know that my ear had gone missing as such until someone picked it up off the floor.
"It’s quite disturbing to say the least."
After the attack took place, Hammond returned to her car and drove off. However, she voluntarily returned two days later to Charing Cross Police Station - which is just down the road from where the incident happened- for an interview.
When it was her turn to give her account to the jury, Hammond claimed she was acting in self-defense, and did not realize the extent of the damage she had caused.
"I was self-defending myself," she claimed. "Someone grabbed my breast and that was enough for me."
She continued: "I did not want to fight, I wanted to walk away. I do not accept lying because I was telling the full honest truth. I accept what happened but I do not accept I intended to do this to Julie."
Hammond also mentioned that she was provoked by Holloway "banging on her vehicle causing dents to the side", as well as calling her a "Botox b***h".
Despite her claims, the 27-year-old model was sentenced to five years for
grievous bodily harm. Holloway, meanwhile, has suffered from PTSD as a result of the attack and has had to undergo surgery in order to reconstruct her damaged ear.
