Feminist Law Student laughs As She Walks Free From Court For Hitting Aspiring Male Model Over The Head With A Bottle Of Champagne Cutting His Forehead To The SKULL

• Student Sarah McKenzie-Ayres struck the victim in a Manchester nightclub
• She claimed the 19-year-old man had been making 'unwelcome advances' 
• He was cut to the bone during attack and has been left scarred for life

By Stephanie Linning: A law student who clubbed an aspiring male model with a champagne bottle because he was making 'unwanted advances' has been spared jail. 

Sarah McKenzie-Ayres was pictured laughing as she walked free from court after being handed a suspended sentence for striking the man in a Manchester nightclub last September.

The 19-year-old victim, who has not been named, has been left with permanent scarring that has forced him to abandon his dreams of becoming a professional model.

McKenzie-Ayres, 19, was spared jail for GBH after telling Manchester Crown Court that she believed the victim was 'making unwelcome advances'.

Neil Beckwith, prosecuting, said the victim was standing with friends in Venus nightclub in Manchester when McKenzie-Ayres accused him of bumping into her friend.

When the victim disagreed, McKenzie-Ayres ordered him to move before pushing him and grabbing the champagne bottle from his friends' table.   

She then pushed him backwards and swung the champagne bottle into his face ‘like a club’.

Mr Beckwith said: 'He had a glimpse of her with the bottle of champagne in her right hand, raised overhead, and she then struck him to the forehead.

'He noticed immediately blood was pouring down his face, raised his hand, felt what he believed to be bone.' 

Nightclub staff stopped McKenzie-Ayres as she tried to leave and took her picture after the victim identified his attacker as a girl 'in a red dress'. She was later identified and arrested by police.  

In a statement the victim's father said: 'He was looking to pursue a modelling career, but he's now lost any confidence in pursuing that and he's very self-conscious of facial scars. 

'The incident has traumatised him greatly.'

Virginia Hayton, defending McKenzie-Ayres, who has no previous convictions, said she was remorseful and described the incident as 'very much out of character'. 

She said: 'She's an extremely intelligent young woman - her behaviour on this night has meant she may not be able to pursue her dreams and carry out a career in law.'

Sentencing, Judge David Stockdale QC told her the violence she used was 'extraordinarily extreme'. 

He said: 'These courts all too often deal with cases in which violence breaks out at night, usually when the participants have had too much to drink and a glass or bottle is used as a weapon - a weapon to the head or face of the victim, and in most of these cases the injuries can be truly appalling.

'It's a matter of pure chance, nothing more, that the victim did not sustain extremely serious facial injuries.'

The judge ordered her to serve 16 months, suspended for two years, with 150 hours unpaid work. 

In an email to the Daily Mail, she claimed her victim ignored ‘multiple’ requests to move and said she felt threatened by him being ‘in my space and being so close to me’.

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