‘I thought I was going to die’: Teen speaks out about horrific attack by her boyfriend that was so brutal it pushed her contact lens BEHIND her eye

A TEENAGER whose boyfriend launched a horrific attack on her, has spoken for the first time about her ordeal.

Sara Dudek, 17, was assaulted so fiercely by boyfriend Kane Case-Webb, 20, that her contact lens shot behind her eye and left it pouring with blood.

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Kane had downed copious amounts of Sambuca, as well as bottles of wine and vodka before launching the horrific attack on his girlfriend - during which he slashed at her with a knife he had been holding to his own throat.

He also clamped his teeth onto her back, and shook his head around like a dog with a piece of meat.

Sara said: “I thought I was going to die. Though we were young, Kane and I were so much in love and I never thought he would hurt me.

“He had a chunk of my flesh in his mouth and he shook his head around, as though he was a dog with a piece of meat. His fury was terrifying.”

The couple met through Facebook in 2013 and their relationship soon became serious.

“I really felt that Kane was the love of my life,” Sara added.

But while Sara was besotted, her mum, Justina, 33, was not so sure.

Justina, said: “Kane was very possessive and he didn’t like Sara speaking to other boys. I was worried where it would lead.”

On New Year’s Eve 2014 Kane proposed and the pair got engaged, with Sara moving in with him soon after.

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Sara explained: “Kane was always very caring and loving, but he could be jealous and paranoid and he blamed his anxiety on the mugging. He was always worrying about me going off with other men.

“He didn’t even like me talking to his own brother. It was nothing more than a niggle between us and we were happy together.”

However, the happiness wasn’t to last and in October this year, after a few drinks at home, a minor argument turned into a horrific attack.

“I asked Kane if I could borrow his phone to call a friend, and he refused. I tried to grab it, in a joking way, but as I leaned across him he bit me hard on my neck and I screamed,” Sara said.

“It was the first time he had ever been violent to me in any way and I was very shocked.”

Kane then started, punching, kicking and biting Sara, and spitting on her as she lay helpless on the floor.

His brother and mother were in the house and tried to defend Sara, but they were injured too.

Frenzied Kane then grabbed a large kitchen knife and held it to his own throat, Sara and his mum tried to disarm him but he sliced at their hands - leaving them dripping with blood.

Sara added: “I ran to the bedroom and hid under a duvet but Kane grabbed my head and smashed it against the side of a table. It was so forceful that my contact lens slipped behind my left eye and I felt something pop in my eyeball.

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“The pain was excruciating. My eye was pouring with blood and my eyelid was literally hanging off.

“I was screaming loudly but Kane just covered my face with a pillow and shouted at me to shut up. At that point, I thought my time was up.

“Kane was in a rage. He threw me on the floor and stamped on my head, over and over again. I felt myself losing consciousness and I thought I was dying.”

Kane then ran from the house and before diving onto the bonnet of an oncoming taxi, cracking the windscreen and terrifying the driver and passers-by.

He was arrested soon afterwards and Sara was rushed to hospital.

The young woman had suffered a deep wound by her left eye, which had to be glued together, plus various other cuts, bruises and bite marks.

Kane has now been jailed for seven years.

He admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, two counts of assault, affray and criminal damage.

Judge Denis Watson, QC, said during the case at Liverpool Crown Court that his “rage was so fierce” that when his girlfriend took a bread knife from him he got hold of her head and smashed it against a table.

He said: “You were punching her face and kicking her and then you clamped your teeth into the flesh on her back.

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“You started shaking your head around, as if trying to tear some flesh from her back.”

“I have no doubt your intention was to commit more serious harm than you in fact committed.”

Kane’s defence told the court he suffered with mental health issues.

The judge said he believed the true triggers of the “outrageous and sustained attack” were drink and drugs.

Sara says: “I was so traumatised that I had to have over a month off college.

“I feel so let down by Kane. We were engaged, I thought he was my soul-mate, and it is just unbelievable to think he did this to me. Looking back, I wish I’d listened more to my mum; older and wiser, and she sensed there was something wrong from the start.

“I loved him so much, but there is no way back for us now.”