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Model Disfigures PhD Student Smashing Wine Glass In His Face In Jail
A glamorous model and air stewardess was jailed for two and a half years after she smashed a wine glass into a student’s face, causing horrific injuries.
Lisa Kee threw red wine over Liam Sharratt before punching him and smashing the glass into his face.
The attack was so severe that it slashed the PhD student’s cheek open and left him with permanent scarring.
PhD student Liam Sharratt was scarred for life after Lisa Kee smashed a glass into his face during a drunken night out
Mr Sharratt said the attack had shattered his confidence and he was still struggling to come to terms with its life-long effects.
Manchester Crown Court heard Kee attacked Mr Sharratt after she lost control when he laughed at her at the city’s Living Room bar in November 2007.
The court heard how Kee, 29, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport, approached Mr Sharratt, 26, and his friends in the Deansgate bar.
Kee was drunk, with a ‘red wine moustache’ and carrying a full glass of wine as she began to exchange ‘good humoured’ banter, the court was told.
But witnesses had described how Mr Sharratt jokingly called her a ’slag’ and the banter turned ugly after Kee asked him: ‘Who do you think you are?’
Air stewardess and ex model Lisa Kee was jailed for two and a half years for the attack
She threw wine over him and when he laughed she became enraged and punched him in the head.
He laughed again and she hit him twice in the face with her wine glass, dragging it down his cheek and wounding him in five places.
One cut was so deep that when the victim breathed, his cheek fell open.
Speaking after the sentencing, Mr Sharratt said: ‘I just remember her being very lecherous and provocative, coming over to a predominantly male group.
‘There was banter going back and forth and there have been times when I’ve been very drunk but I’m always in control enough to walk away.
‘I used to be very outgoing but this shattered my confidence. I taught in front of 200 people and I loved it but I can’t do that anymore.
Mr Sharratt said he was forced to relive the attack every time someone looked at the scar.
‘In my opinion, the worst thing someone can do to another person is inflict something on them that they have no control over. You change that person’s life forever,’ he said.
‘I’m glad she’s gone to prison but she gets her life back in a couple of years while I have to live with this forever. ‘
Mr Sharratt was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder following the attack and had to delay completion of his studies.
Judge Martin Rudland told Kee, who was crying and visibly terrified in the dock, that she had drunk too much and ‘lost all control’.
He said that when banter turned ugly, her reaction was ‘excessive, disproportionate and inappropriate’.
He said: ‘This was a vicious and wholly unwarranted attack and you know what you have done and you know the enormity of what you have done and the effects which will continue to be a blight on Mr Sharratt every time he looks in the mirror.’
She was ordered to serve at least half of her sentence after admitting a charge of unlawful wounding.
The former Monarch Airways stewardess was dragged screaming into custody after the sentence was read out.
Simon Csoka, defending, said his client had been depressed prior to the offence but had always been able to hold her drink and could scarcely believe what she had done.
‘She must have been drunk but she can’t remember drinking excessively,’ he said
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