I was left covered in blood after a sick thug smashed a plate in my FACE in a row over ‘cold’ food
A CHIP shop owner was left covered in blood after a sick thug smashed a plate in her face in a row over “cold” food.
Shirley Hollies, 56, who owns Shepherd Street Chippy, in Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent was left with two black eyes and a severe nose injury after the shock attack.
The mum-of-six had been doing home deliveries because of the coronavirus pandemic when she dropped off an order to her attacker, Wendy Mountford.
But after 20 minutes later she had a phone call saying that items were missing from her order.
Shirley, trying to rectify the situation, went back to the bungalow near her shop and was attacked.
She told : “I knocked on the door and Wendy answered. I said 'there you go, there's your missing food, is it all sorted?'.
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"She said her fish, chips and peas were cold. She was being unreasonable and I just kept saying 'what do you want me to do to make this right?'. Her boyfriend was in the back shouting and swearing at me and I thought 'that's it, time for me to go'.
"I said 'I'm going and you will be reimbursed'. I turned around to go and I felt something hit me on my back. I had peas all down my back.
I turned round to say 'what are you doing?' and before I knew it I just saw this plate hit my face and it smashed. I had my head down to protect my face thinking 'what just happened?'.
"Then I felt someone pull my hair. When I felt it release I ran out to my car and said I'll be ringing the police. Her boyfriend came out and was shouting and swearing at me again."
Shirley rushed home to her husband Clint, who called the police and took her to A&E.
She said: "I couldn't go in the chip shop looking like that so I went round the back. I was in a state, crying and my nose was gushing with blood.
"One of the biggest things I can't believe is how it's affected me. I consider myself to be a strong person, but it's really affected me and it's affected my family.
"You don't want your children seeing you like that. My family keeps me going, that's really helped me and they continue to support me.
"The first time I went out on my own after it happened, I felt anxious and vulnerable and I'm still looking around when I go out now. It really has changed me.
"I just keep reliving things everyday going over it again and again. For two days after it happened I couldn't sleep, just churning things over."
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Mountford, aged 55, was recently convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and is due to be sentenced on June 13.
Shirley explained: "We still get upset now 12 months on, we were in tears in court. I just wanted her found guilty. It was a massive relief. I feel much much better, I'm getting past it now and moving forward."