An EXPATRIATE woman has been sentenced to three years behind bars for severing the finger of another woman at a nightclub in a brutal assault.
The High Criminal Court convicted the 28-year-old Moroccan of unintentionally causing a long-term injury by partially biting off the victim’s pinkie in the ladies’ room of the hotel’s nightclub.
According to court documents, the Moroccan victim had to pick up her severed finger from a pool of her own blood on the floor, although it is not known if the little finger was later reattached or not.
A Nigerian female security guard reportedly broke up the fight and provided first aid to the victim, wrapping the wound with medical gauze, stopping the bleeding and escorting her to emergency services.
The guard reportedly went on to clean the blood on the bathroom floor by herself.
She also called another guard to take the defendant away from the victim.
A medical report states that the amputation occurred at the middle phalanx, or second joint, of her little finger, which is considered a two per cent permanent disability.
As per court documents, the fight began at 2am or 3am with a verbal altercation in the women’s bathroom of the Juffair hotel’s nightclub in April this year.
The argument became physical when the defendant, a regular at the nightspot, began hitting the victim, grabbing her hair and scratching her face.
“I grabbed her hair in return to defend myself,” the victim told the Public Prosecution. “Though my friend and a security guard were trying to separate us and get her away from me, she sunk her teeth into my little finger, cutting it off.”
The friend described that the victim began screaming in pain while bleeding profusely. She added that the finger fell to the floor and the victim had to pick it up from the ground.
The 32-year-old Nigerian security guard swooped in to save the day.
She testified to removing the defendant’s hand out of the victim’s hair and stopping the assault by pulling her out of the bathroom. She accompanied the victim down the hotel’s reception when the defendant allegedly ran away.
A hotel manager, who was on shift that night, told the police that he saw the Moroccan women at the reception after being called by his staff, who informed him about the fight.
“The defendant is a regular customer, and she had engaged in fights at the hotel before,” he claimed.
“She previously bit a Saudi customer.”
Security camera footage reportedly confirmed that the defendant entered the ladies’ room at the time of the assault.
Prosecutors submitted a statement to the court, asking judges to condemn the Moroccan, and attached her criminal record where she was previously reported to the police for biting the Saudi man.
It appears that she was neither prosecuted nor punished for the previous assault.
A medical examiner’s report was referenced in the prosecution’s case against the defendant, in which a doctor noted that half of the victim’s right little finger was cut off and it had bite marks on it.
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