Clubber denies slashing the neck of Ground Force presenter Tommy Walsh's daughter
A YOUNG woman accused of attacking the daughter of TV presenter Tommy Walsh yesterday denied slashing her neck with a broken glass.
Leanne Bloomfield allegedly grabbed Natalie Walsh by the hair and cut her neck at a nightclub, a court was told.
As Ms Walsh, 22, lay on the floor, Bloomfield is said to have kicked her.
Bloomfield later texted a friend to say she had had a “massive punch-up with some girl”. She added: “Ha, ha bitch, she got me in the nose though. Me and my sister did a number on her, she was in a heap, they didn’t catch me, ha ha.”
Bloomfield, 28, had drunk beer, vodka and wine at the club in London’s West End but she told the jury her attack was nothing more than hair-pulling.
The two women clashed at the Cafe de Paris, in Leicester Square, last February, Southwark Crown Court was told.
Ms Walsh, whose father, a star of the hit BBC show Ground Force, sat in the public gallery, allegedly “went for” Bloomfield, who pulled Ms Walsh’s hair and kicked her in the leg. Bloomfield, of Colchester, denies wounding with intent. She insisted she acted out of fear of attack, had no glass in her hand and did not cause the injury.
On arrest at home, Bloomfield said: “Yeah, I was there, I had a fight, she punched me, it’s not serious is it? She’s OK?”
She told the jury: “I was sorry I had a fight. I didn’t know what happened to Natalie. It was a three second hairpulling. I kicked her and walked off.” The trial continues.