Drunken reveller hit Leeds doorman in face with stiletto heel before shouting racial abuse

Lauren Bray, 22, also hurled foul-mouthed racial abuse at another member of door staff during the incident at Mission nightclub in Leeds city centre.

Leeds Crown Court heard Bray became violent towards doorman Matthew Doyle after he was called to a report of an incident involving a group of women behaving aggressively at the nightclub at 2.20am on September 15 this year.

Bray was in her bare feet but holding a pair of stiletto shoes when Mr Doyle tried to remove her from the premises.

She tried to resist and Mr Doyle tried to appeal to her friends to get her to leave. At that point Bray used one of the shoes to strike Mr Doyle seven or eight times in the head and neck. The mother-of-one then shouted racial abuse and spat at another doorman, Karl Taylor.

Bray, of Barden Terrace, Bramley, Leeds, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and racially aggravated assault.

In interview she said she had been very drunk and had been in an abusive relationship. She said she “went a bit mad” after being grabbed by the neck as it reminded her of the treatment she received from a former partner.

Chloe Fairley, for Bray, said she had been suffering from anxiety and depression.

“There is no one more disgusted with what happened than Lauren Bray herself,” she added. “She is utterly repelled by what she did.”

Judge Rodney Jameson made Bray the subject of a three-month curfew and ordered her to take part in an intensive community order for 12 months.