The girlfriend of a Derby County footballer has told of her ordeal after a horrific attack which led to hospitalisation and her collapse in a toilet in Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre. Keeley Carter, who is with former England U20 international Louie Sibley, described being rugby-tackled to the ground in Nottingham city centre when out with friends on June 11 last year, and waking up "covered in blood".
Her emotional statement was read out as a Nottinghamshire couple were sentenced at Nottingham Magistrates' Court for unleashing violence on Miss Carter and her friend, Cat Maltby, in Upper Parliament Street. After visiting pubs and going for a takeaway, Miss Maltby was involved in a verbal confrontation with a man who had said to her: "What the **** are you staring at."
As Miss Maltby argued with the couple, Miss Carter tried to get between them, but hairdresser Beth Wallace, one of the attackers, slapped her to the side of her face twice. Wallace's boyfriend, Kane Gutteridge, rugby-tackled Miss Carter to the floor and hit her to her face and body.
