KENT NEWS: Two young women have been jailed for imprisoning and torturing a former friend during a horrific 18-hour-long attack after a row over a man.
Georgia Fenn, 18, was punched, kicked, beaten with a shoe, stamped on, whipped with a heavy metal chain, burned with a cigarette and a lighter, and scalded with boiling water mixed with sugar.
Detectives who investigated the case have described the ordeal the victim was put through as “sadistic” and welcomed the jail terms given to her attackers yesterday.
Lucy Viner-Mood, 22, and Lois Gibson, 18, both of Homewood Road, Langton Green, were sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on Wednesday.
Viner-Mood was given a five year jail term for false imprisonment and three-and-a-half years for assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH), to run concurrently.
Her accomplice Gibson was sentenced to three years for false imprisonment and two years for ABH, also to run at the same time.
Both women had pleaded guilty to both charges at a previous court hearing in June.
The court heard that Miss Fenn was subjected to the sustained attack at Viner-Mood’s flat in Langton Green on Sunday, March 28, from 8pm until 2pm the next day, when they threw her out on the street.
The victim had been staying with Viner-Mood and Gibson at the flat in Homewood Road, but a row broke out as Viner-Mood believed Miss Fenn had become involved with her ex-boyfriend.
At first the two women hurled verbal abuse at the victim, but this quickly escalated into violence.
During the attack the terrified teenager was hit around the head with a heavy metal neck chain and had boiling water and sugar thrown at her.
Sugar is known to make boiling water stick to the skin, so causing more severe and painful burns.
The victim was kicked and struck repeatedly with a high-heeled shoe, and her head was stamped on. She was knocked unconscious and awoke when a cigarette was stubbed out on her back.
And she was unable to escape the torture as Viner-Mood had the only keys to the locked front door and kept pulling her back.
At 5am, Miss Fenn was left to sleep on the floor in a pool of blood, before being thrown out at 2pm on Monday, March 29, to walk the streets barefoot.
South East Coast Ambulance Service alerted Kent Police after being called to help the victim.
When she was admitted to hospital, doctors found her hair had been cut and her head and clothes were matted with blood.
She had sustained extensive injuries which included multiple bruising, burns caused by a cigarette lighter, burns caused by a cigarette, two black eyes swollen to the point where they could just open, a broken nose and shoe marks on her temple.
After the sentencing Detective Constable Adrian Grew, the investigating officer, said: “The behaviour of Lucy Viner-Mood and Lois Gibson can only be described as feral.
“The level of violence shown during their sadistic attack was made all the more shocking by the length of time it went on for.
“Whilst the physical scars they have left are slowly healing, it remains to be seen whether their victim will fully recover from the distress and trauma caused by two people who betrayed her trust, and subjected her to what must have been a terrifying ordeal.
“For her sake, I hope that knowing these vicious young women are now in prison may help her.”
POSTED: 29/07/2010 10:41:14
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