One of Merseyside’s top policemen is urging clubbers to control their drinking in the wake of a series of vicious stiletto heel attacks.
Superintendent Mark Wiggins says revellers can “let themselves down” and become embroiled in fights after binge drinking.
He stressed Liverpool remains a safe place to party, but violence can flare up in a matter of seconds.
The courts in Merseyside have dealt with a spate of cases in recent months in which defendants used stiletto heels to beat their victims.
A stiletto can become a convenient and brutal weapon in the wrong hands.
The heels can even be metal-tipped, potentially inflicting devastating injuries.
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Supt Wiggins said: “Unfortunately, on occasion, some people let themselves down by drinking too much and getting involved in violent incidents which ordinarily they might steer well away from.
“We have seen the consequences of this kind of behaviour in recent court cases.
“An innocent victim is left with the emotional and physical scars of the assault and the offender has ended up with a criminal record, their face in the paper and the very real prospect of imprisonment, all of which could have been avoided.”
These are some of the women recently hauled before the courts for attacks involving stiletto heels
Abbie Van Hien, 25, of Whatcroft Close, Runcorn, who was given 16 months in prison, suspended for two years, after slashing a woman with her stiletto heel Abbie Van Hien
Abbie Van Hien, of Whatcroft Close, Runcorn, was given a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for slashing a woman with her stiletto heel.
Van Hien, 25, said she had no memory of the attack, but a court heard how she lashed out after a Good Samaritan asked if she was OK during the early hours of New Year’s Day last year on Bold Street, Liverpool city centre.
The victim needed stitches for a 3cm cut to her forehead.
Jody Modeste, who was jailed for 18 months for attacking a woman with a stiletto 
Jody Modeste was jailed for 18 weeks after admitting attacking her victim in a case of mistaken identity.
Modeste, 27, from Huddersfield, was staying over in Liverpool with friends when she got into an argument with another group of women inside the Camel Club, Wood Street.
Her victim said in a statement: “She stabbed it (the stiletto heel) into my left cheek and I felt an instant throbbing pain and burning and I saw blood.”
Julie Green, 46, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court for wounding without intent and common assault Julie Green
Julie Green battered her defenceless victim as she cowered on the floor before striking her with a stiletto in Lord Street, Southport.
The victim was Amy Urquhart, the new partner of Green’s ex-boyfriend Stephen McLoughlin.
The attack came after Green, 43, spotted the pair in a pub.
Green, of Meadow Lane, Southport, was jailed for two-and-a-half years after she pleaded guilty to wounding without intent and common assault.
Amy Sundve, 30, of Melling Road, Bootle was jailed for slashing a man in the face with her stiletto heels
Drunken Amy Sundve, 30, launched the unprovoked attack outside the Elm Tree pub in Kirkdale after going on a two-day bender to celebrate her birthday.
Her victim suffered a cut artery and was left with a 7cm scar across his forehead.
Pregnant Sundve, of Melling Road, Bootle, then attacked the victim’s girlfriend, scraping her left eye with the metal-tipped heel and badly injuring her shoulder.
She was jailed for 10 months, meaning her baby will be born in prison.
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/