Mark van Dongen, 29, an engineer, was left paralysed from the neck down, “grotesquely scarred” and all but blinded following the alleged attack by Berlinah Wallace, 48. The jury at Bristol crown court was told that Wallace attacked Van Dongen in the early hours of 23 September 2015. The next day, Van Dongen attended Trinity Road police station in Bristol and spoke to PC Katie Bettel. The officer told jurors Van Dongen told her he had been receiving unwanted phone calls and text messages from Wallace and alleged she had been making silent calls to Farquharson. She claims she thought she was throwing a glass of water at Van Dongen.

Source: The Guardian November 10, 2017 16:58 UTC