‚Drunk‘ woman who blinded her best friend when she stamped on her face with stiletto in fight over taxi fare faces jail

‚Drunk‘ woman who blinded her best friend when she stamped on her face with stiletto in fight over taxi fare faces jail

A woman blinded her best friend in one eye after stamping on her face with a stiletto during a row over a taxi fare.

Melissa Causer’s silver shoe pierced Sophie Robinson’s eyeball – leaving a 13mm-deep split – as they argued over the cost of the journey after a night out.

Causer denied the charges, but was found guilty of one count of grievous bodily harm with intent by a jury at Teesside Crown Court today. She now faces up to 16 years in jail.

Miss Robinson, 20, had told the court how she was pinned to the ground, repeatedly punched and stamped on three times by Causer, 21, who had become ‚infuriated and violent.‘

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She said the third blow from the heel of the silver shoes caused ‚excruciating pain‘ and then a burning sensation in her right eye.

Giving evidence from behind a screen, she said the pair had travelled from Darlington to Middlesbrough for a night out on January 10.

After a trouble-free evening, Miss Robinson went for a taxi but could not get her friend to join her, prosecutor Richard Bennett told the court.

Miss Robinson arrived at Miss Causer’s home in Middleton-St-George, near Darlington, 10 minutes before her friend got there in another cab.

There was a discussion about money for the second taxi before Miss Causer knocked her friend to the ground and attacked her.

Under cross-examination by Annalise Haugstad, defending, Miss Robinson denied pulling her friend from her cab by the hair.

She also disputed that there was a scuffle and they were both hitting each other, and that Causer, of Browns Buildings, Middleton-St-George, had taken her shoes off in the car.

Mr Bennett said: ‚The very last thing Sophie Robinson saw with both of her eyes was that Melissa stamped on her face.

‚The first two blows avoided her eyes, but, unfortunately, the third blow with those stiletto heels went into her eyeball and split it.

‚She had no idea at that stage how serious and catastrophic the injury was.

The shoe heel penetrated the eyeball, causing immediate and irreparable damage.

‚The heels of those shoes are a very lethal weapon if, indeed, they were used as a weapon.

‚It is the prosecution’s case that Melissa Causer intended to cause really serious bodily harm.‘

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