A Miss Universe finalist was punched within the head no less than 30 occasions and sustained bites that turned “septic” in an assault by her ex-partner, a court docket has heard.
Model and influencer Chloe Othen, 33, was additionally strangled and dragged alongside the ground by her hair by Ricky Lawrence, 32, the Nightingale Crown Court in Holborn, central London, was instructed on Tuesday.
Prosecutor Sheilagh Davies mentioned Lawrence, of Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, west London, beat Ms Othen, took her telephone and stopped her from leaving his flat, throughout an alleged assault in October 2022.
“As she got up to leave, Ricky Lawrence had grabbed her phone out of her hand and refused to give it back. He then lashed out and punched her,” Ms Davies mentioned.
“He was fighting her, biting her multiple times all over her body.”
Ms Othen and Lawrence’s six-month relationship resulted in May 2022 however she instructed the court docket the pair have been “on and off” after that point and she or he had final seen Lawrence “a few days” earlier than the alleged assault.
Bora Guccuk, who had begun a relationship with Ms Othen on the time, had tried to name her telephone within the flat, however Lawrence answered and threatened him, saying he would “kill him”, the court docket heard.
Ms Othen ran out of the flat after the assault, calling Mr Guccuk for assist, earlier than assembly him and a good friend on the Berkeley Hotel, additionally in Knightsbridge.
She went to A&E on 16 October, the place her accidents have been documented, and it was proven that one of many chew marks on her neck “turned septic”, the prosecutor mentioned.
‘Manic’ messages exchanged earlier than alleged assault
Ms Othen mentioned she determined to go to Lawrence’s condo within the early hours of 15 October after she had been at an occasion because the defendant grew to become “aggressive” by textual content, including: “I thought I’d let him calm down and then go over there and see him.”
In WhatsApp messages proven in court docket, exchanged between Ms Othen and Lawrence from 4.17am to five.35am on 15 October, Lawrence mentioned: “You f***** up tonight. Watch what I do now you silly c***.”
Another message mentioned: “I’ll do anything in my power to f*** up the rest of your life. Screenshot that.”
Ms Othen mentioned she thought Lawrence’s behaviour was “manic”, however that receiving abusive messages from him was “quite normal”.
She mentioned she arrived at his flat at 5.35am after getting a taxi from Kensington.
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‘I genuinely thought he was going to kill me’
Asked about Lawrence’s temper when she arrived, Ms Othen mentioned he was “weirdly calm”.
“Ricky was quite strange when I walked in. Within five, 10 minutes, I wanted to leave,” she mentioned.
“I genuinely thought he was going to kill me.”
Ms Othen mentioned Lawrence “punched me about 30 times in the head and the ear” for “about an hour and a half”, after taking her telephone away from her.
She mentioned he additionally “pulled me up and down from the kitchen to the bedroom” by her hair earlier than he “got two kitchen knives from his bedroom and chased me round the dining room”.
Lawrence was arrested at his flat and supplied a ready assertion to police wherein he mentioned he had “repeatedly asked Chloe to leave but she continued to shout and scream” and he had “sustained a lengthy scratch along my abdomen”, the court docket heard.
The jury was proven two units of images, one taken by police on 15 October, and extra taken the next day, which confirmed marks and bruising on Ms Othen’s face, neck, elbow, inside thigh, proper leg and knee.
Ms Othen mentioned she had a gentle cauliflower ear and needed to get her jaw unlocked, and needed to put on a neck brace from being strangled.
Lawrence, who denies a cost of assault occasioning precise bodily hurt, spoke solely to substantiate his title at Tuesday’s court docket listening to.
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”