A jealous boyfriend in South
Shields, Tyneside, had asked Chanttelle Ward if she loved him before he sank
his teeth into her face during the horrific attack according to The Daily Mail.
According to prosecutors, the
23-year-old had been jealous and insecure about what the 18-year-old could get
up to while he was working away when he decided to disfigure her.
Jurors at Newcastle Crown Court
saw pictures of teeth marks in Miss Ward's upper lip after the attack, during
which he smeared her own blood around her face and forced his tongue in her
mouth. This is horrible; continue with the rest of the story…
23 year old Culley, who had been
in a relationship with Miss Ward for more than two years, denied wounding with
intent but was found guilty after a trial.
He will be sentenced next month
and has now been remanded in custody.
Greame Cook, defending, applied
for the shopfitter's bail to be allowed to continue while he awaits sentence
but Miss Recorder Wigin refused.
The judge said: 'The sentence will
inevitably be custody.'
Jurors heard Culley bit down on
the victim's lip with the same f
As well as the gruesome 'very
deep' injury to her mouth, Miss Ward had bruising and scratches to her head and
body after the attack, which started after a row about Facebook.
Narrating her own side of the
story to the jurors; Miss Ward told jurors during the trial Culley had tried to
kiss her and asked her if she still loved him before the bite.
She said: 'He put his whole mouth
around my lips and pulled, I thought that my whole lip had come off. There was blood
everywhere.'
The court heard trouble had flared
at Miss Ward's home after a night out, when he chased her from room to room and
attacked her.
Prosecutor Emma Dowling said
Culley kicked and punched Miss Ward, pulled her hair, threw her into furniture
and threw things at her before finally launching the frenzied facial attack.
The attack happened on February 22
this year, after the young couple had been out at the County Public House in
South Shields.
They had been celebrating Miss
Ward's mother's birthday and at about 10.30pm Miss Ward, the defendant and her
aunt Susan Stewart shared a taxi home, dropping her aunt off first.
When the defendant and his girlfriend
got back to her house, the mood of the night changed. The defendant brought up
a conversation that his girlfriend had had with another man on Facebook earlier
in the month.
The defendant then took Miss
Ward's phone off her in a bid to look through her Facebook messages.
The court heard how when he found
that the messages were no longer there he became angry and started to shout at
Miss Ward accusing her of having something to hide.
At this point, Miss Ward told the
court, she realised that something was wrong and that this wasn't a 'normal'
argument for the pair, who had been together for almost two and a half years.
She became scared and lifted her
phone to call the defendant's mother to ask her to come and get him.
But Culley is said to have taken
the phone from his victim, he also locked the doors so that she couldn't
escape.
Later, when her phone was left
unattended she made an emergency call but Culley again took the phone from her.
Miss Dowling said that after
Culley had bitten his victim, he 'rubbed his face in hers, smearing the blood
across her face and then he stuck his tongue into her mouth'.
'When the police arrived they saw
that they both had blood on them and over their faces.'
Culley was arrested and Miss Ward
was taken to hospital to have her injuries examined.
She suffered not only the injuries
to her mouth, but bruising to her arms and body, a scratch to her left breast
and bruising of the face and ear.
During his evidence Culley said he
did not mean to harm his 'beautiful' girlfriend, who he knew he was lucky to
have.
Did he just he just say he didn’t
mean to hurt her? What a terrible guy.
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