This is the violent mum who stabbed a woman in the face with a stiletto heel outside a Liverpool club.
Jody Louise Modeste, 27, was jailed for 18 weeks at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Monday after admitting attacking the woman in a case of mistaken identity.
Modeste, from Huddersfield, was staying over in Liverpool with friends when she got into an argument with another group of women inside Camel Club, Wood Street.
David Maxwell, prosecuting, said victim Latisha Carter and friends were stood outside the club smoking when they noticed a group of around 15-20 women staring at them.
A statement from mum-of-one Miss Carter, read by Mr Maxwell, said: “They started coming towards me and shouting, but I can’t remember what they were saying because there were so many shouting across the group.
“One female in particular was shouting ‘I am going to kill you’. At that point I said I didn’t want to fight and I didn’t want to get involved in anything.”
The Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool Magistrates’ Court
The court heard two men who witnessed the incident tried to shield the victim, but Modeste got around them.
Miss Carter said: “I saw she was holding a stiletto shoe with a thin heel, around six inches long. She stabbed it into my left cheek and I felt an instant throbbing pain and burning, and I saw blood.”
The court heard Modeste shouted: “Don’t f****** smile at me,” before leaving the area.
Matthew O’Neill, defending Modeste, said her client had mistaken Miss Carter for one of the woman she had argued with inside the club.
Despite her pain, the victim called police and followed her attacker from a distance.
She saw the group attempting to get into another bar on Wood Street and managed to alert two mounted police officers, who arrested the defendant.
Modeste answered no comment in interview, but later pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
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Miss Carter was treated for a large cut which went through her cheek, leaving a scar, and cuts inside her gums.
The court heard Modeste, of Curzon Street, has previous convictions for robbery, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, battery and witness intimidation, although she had not been in trouble since 2008.
In a victim impact statement, read to the court, Miss Carter said: “My scar is a constant reminder that me or my four-year-old daughter could be randomly attacked.”
Mr O’Neill said Modeste “would never have committed the offence sober” and described his client as a “good mother”.
District Judge Wendy Lloyd, passing sentence, said: “The victim was just having a cigarette and this was an act of random street violence.”
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