Number 7 Paula and Melissa Millard In the fall of 2018, a mother and daughter were
each jailed for five years after a brutal attack on a pub goer, which occurred on New Year’s Eve
2016. The violent altercation unfolded before midnight at an establishment called The Harrow,
in South London, and the assailants were identified as 49-year-old Paula Millard
and her daughter Melissa, aged 22. The unnamed victim, reported as a woman in her early 40s,
had heard the mother and daughter arguing in the pub’s restroom. She’d attempted to
deescalate the situation by allegedly telling the other women “come on girls, it’s New Year’s Eve”.
The Millards were enraged by the interjection and viciously attacked her. They proceeded to
batter the other woman after she’d collapsed to the floor and even smashed a glass over her head.
The victim sustained severe injuries to her wrist, a deep gash to her eyebrow and a broken nose, for
which she was left needing hospital treatment. The police were called to the Harrow, at around 11 pm,
and the attackers were taken into custody. The mother and daughter were subsequently charged with
and found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm. Number 6 Dean Dinnen
Englishman Dean Dinnen was confronted and forced outside by another patron at Hull’s The Endyke
pub, on August the 5th of 2011, after flouting the establishment’s anti-smoking policy. 24-year-old
Dinnen left but, within minutes, returned and approached the pub wielding a petrol-operated
chainsaw. As captured by CCTV surveillance, he began revving the power tool outside the building,
frightening everyone in his path, before he entered the establishment. The man who’d
confronted him earlier was gone but, nevertheless, Dinnen began revving and swinging the chainsaw
around. Customers scrambled for safety and tried defending themselves with items from the pub. An
eyewitness later reported on the chaos that Dinnen had stirred up and told a media outlet
“I could not believe my eyes. The saw was being swung around…people were arching their bodies to
swerve away from him.” Patron Adrian Pryor was attacked by Dinnen and suffered severed tendons
as he desperately tried to defend himself with a bar stool. Pryor was treated with 21 stitches and
needed six weeks off from his job as a plumber to recover. Dinnen, reported as being under the
influence of drugs and alcohol at the time, was eventually overpowered by The Endyke’s customers
who’d used chairs, stools and pool cues. He was disarmed with a kick and then battered on the
ground, sustaining broken ribs and a punctured lung before the police arrived at the scene.
Dinnen ultimately pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm, for the attack on Pryor,
and affray by using threatening behavior to cause people to fear for their safety. Additionally, he
accepted charges of having an offensive weapon and criminal damage. He was jailed for three years.
Number 5 China Gold
Miss England finalist Olivia Cooke suffered deep cuts to her face following an altercation at The
Farmhouse pub, in West Malling, in October 2018. According to evidence presented at Maidstone Crown
Court, the row had started after Cooke, then in her early 20s, had overheard a woman named
China Gold, whom she’d only met once before, make crude comments about her private life. Cooke
verbally confronted Gold and told her that she didn’t appreciate the remarks. The latter accused
the pageant contestant of trying to start a fight and, in the moments that followed, grabbed her by
the throat and pushed a wine glass into her face. Gold struck Cooke with the glass twice,
once to break it and again with the intention of inflicting further damage. Blood starting pouring
on Cooke’s face after she’d suffered a 2-inch cut to her forehead. She was also left with a
swollen left cheek and a heavily-bruised left eye, above which she had a smaller wound with a
glass shard embedded in it. The pageant contestant recovered but was left with a scar that doctors
deemed required plastic surgery to mend. Gold was arrested in the aftermath but claimed to
have acted in self-defense, alleging that Cooke had initiated the altercation by throwing a glass
at the back of her head. Her trial was delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic but, in September of 2020,
a jury found her guilty after just one hour of deliberation. During sentencing,
the presiding judge took Gold’s reported struggles with depression and other mental health issues
into consideration. She was given an 18-month jail term suspended for two years while also being
banned from contacting Cooke for five years and ordered to pay her nearly $10,000 in compensation.
Number 4 Lucy Nobile
20-year-old Lucy Nobile was out with friends at the Hole in the Wall pub, in Colchester, England,
on September the 4th of 2020. It was there that she encountered James Booth, then in his late 20s,
and stepped in as the inebriated man was harassing a female staff member. In the moments that
followed, Nobile walked away but Booth grabbed a pint glass and went after her. He blindsided the
young woman and drove the base of the glass deep into her face and throat. Booth then tried to flee
the historic pub but was subdued and restrained by other patrons until the authorities arrived
at the scene and arrested him. Nobile was left permanently scarred by the multiple cuts
she’d sustained in the attack. An 8-inch shard was lodged in her neck and, had it gone only 0.2
inches farther, it would’ve clipped her carotid artery and killed her. Additionally, as shown
in pictures documenting the attack, she suffered popped blood vessels in her eye as well as deep
cuts to her cheek, lip and chin while glass was also driven into her nose and mouth. Nobile,
who’d initially passed out after losing roughly four pints of blood, was subsequently given an
estimated 350 stitches and scheduled for plastic surgery. She slowly recovered in the aftermath
but was still struggling with the physical and emotional impact of the attack. Booth ultimately
pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm with intent and, in May of 2021, was jailed for six years.
Number 3 Kristofer Erlbacher An argument that had initially
started over mayonnaise turned deadly, on December the 17th of 2020, outside of a bar
in the small town of Pisgah, Iowa. 29-year-old Kristofer Erlbacher and Caleb Solberg, aged 30,
along with a third man, named as Shaun Johnson, had been drinking together at a bar in Moorhead.
At some point Erlbacher smeared mayonnaise on Solberg’ food to which the latter reportedly
retaliated by punching him in the face. Erlbacher left, accompanied by Johnson, and they went to
a bar called Dave’s Old Home, in Pisgah, where they continued drinking. During the drive over,
Erlbacher called Solberg’s half-brother, Craig Pryor, threatening to shoot the man who’d
punched him with his shotgun and burn his house down. While trying to deescalate the situation,
Pryor went to Dave’s Old Home and began talking with Johnson outside. Solberg, enraged by the
previous threats, arrived outside the bar as well and a fight between him Johnson ensued.
The brawl had reportedly ended on its own accord by the time that Erlbacher came out of the bar,
at approximately 10 pm. The man reportedly told others at the scene “I’ll take care of this”.
He got into his truck and rammed it twice into Pryor’s car, prompting him to flee. Erlbacher
then plowed into Solberg. The impact didn’t kill him and, while clinging to life, the man was
heard crying out for his half-brother. Erlbacher, who in the meantime had driven down the street,
returned in his truck, struck Solberg again and then backed the vehicle over his body. He tried
to leave town but his truck broke down, at which point he called Pryor to tell him he’d killed his
half-brother, allegedly adding “I would have got you too, but I kind of like your kids”.
During his trial, Erlbacher claimed that he hadn’t meant to kill Solberg and blamed
his inebriated state while aiming for the reduced charge of second degree murder.
He was, however, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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the comments section below. Number 2 Sophia Blackburn
A fight over the choice of music at a pub disco, in Wibsey, Bradford, England, led to the permanent
disfigurement of a woman, on May the 25th of 2013. Stacey Wilkinson’s uncle had been DJ-ing the
event, held at the Horse and Groom, and he’d asked her to select the last three songs for the night.
She agreed but, by implementing the changes to the playlist, reportedly turned off a UB40 record.
24-year-old single mother Sophia Blackburn was enraged by the sudden shift and violently charged
Wilkinson next to the DJ booth. Blackburn punched her and they both fell over a table. Then, in an
attack similar to boxer Mike Tyson’s infamous unsportsmanlike outburst, she started biting
into Wilkinson’s ear. The latter tried to defend herself by putting her thumb into Blackburn’s
mouth but, in doing so, got her fingernail bitten off. Others were able to pull Blackburn away but
not before she bit off a piece of 25-year-old Wilkinson’s ear and spat it on the floor. Part
of the former’s tooth was later found embedded in the severed ear piece. It was later revealed that
the DJ, who was reported as dyslexic, had been letting Blackburn and her friends write in the
songs they’d wanted throughout the evening. Wilkinson was unaware of this aspect up upon
changing the UB40 record and simply believed she was helping her uncle out. Wilkinson was treated
with 35 stitches and left disfigured, which reportedly wrought havoc on her mental health.
During Blackburn’s consequent trial, an impact statement from Wilkinson, read by the prosecution,
detailed the fear, loss of sleep and social anxiety she’d suffered since the incident.
Blackburn, who’d fled the pub in the assault’s immediate aftermath, was jailed for four years.
Number 1 Frankie Smith and Savannah Brockhill In 2018, Frankie Smith became pregnant with the
child of Jordan Hobson, a fellow student at the Titus Salt School, in Baildon, West Yorkshire.
Smith gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Star, in May of the following year. By multiple
accounts, the teenager was starkly unprepared for motherhood. Described as mentally immature
and intellectually limited, with an IQ that placed her in the bottom 2% of the population,
Smith was reportedly still playing with dolls a year before she got pregnant.
Her relationship with Hobson ended when he returned to university and, after she turned 18,
Smith was spending the brunt of her time in pubs, leaving Star in the care of babysitters or family
members. At an establishment called The Sun, Smith met club bouncer Savannah Brockhill. The teenager
had never dated women before but was reportedly spellbound by Brockhill’s self-confidence and
the pub encounter developed into a romantic relationship in November of 2019. Before long,
Brockhill sought to exert full control over Smith and her daughter though a regime of coercion,
domestic violence and abuse. Smith was unable to break free from her girlfriend’s influence and,
consequently, any perceived transgression on her or Star’s part was met with punishment. On one
occasion, at the pub, the teenager was punched in the face by her girlfriend, without provocation,
and suffered a chipped tooth. There were other instances of her sustaining black eyes or bruises
on her body. As for Star, Smith would follow Brockhill’s lead in neglecting or mistreating her
and covered for her girlfriend when she was reported to social services.
The impressionable Smith, described as being obsessed with Brockhill, would blindly believe
her lies when it came to injuries appearing on her daughter’s body. On September the 22nd of 2020,
Brockhill went to Smith’s apartment. While the latter was in the bathroom,
she heard a powerful thud. It would later be determined that Brockhill, who’d once
described herself as a “psycho”, had punched or kicked Star with "the force of a car crash".
Star suffered fatal damage to her internal organs and a medical examination would also reveal she
had older injuries that included a fractured ankle and skull. In the aftermath, Smih was cleared of
murder but found guilty of causing or allowing the death of her daughter and jailed for 12
years while Brockhill was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
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