Last Orders for Glass
The Daily Echo campaign, supported by the police, is to encourage late-night bars and clubs in Hampshire to switch from glass to plastic.
Victim Louise backs glassing campaign
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| Louise Reeves before her attack |
IT HAS been 18 months since
an unprovoked bottle attack
left her scarred for life.
Louise Reeves needed 60 stitches in her
face after the glassing at a Southampton
nightclub which left her face cut from her
eyelid to below her cheek.
A hairdresser by trade, in the early
months after the attack she could not bear
to see her face in the mirror and was
forced to quit her job.
Now Louise, 21, has joined the Daily
Echo's campaign to turn Southampton's
late night venues glass-free to stop other
potential victims suffering like she did.
It was on Boxing Day 2006 when the
vicious assault took place as Louise
enjoyed a night out with her then
boyfriend and another friend.
She was at the bar at Diva buying a
round of drinks when she felt the blow to
her head as her attacker Samantha Attrill
smashed a bottle on her head.
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Speaking last year after Attrill was
jailed at Winchester Crown Court having
been found guilty of malicious wounding,
Louise told the Echo: "I can remember
just standing there holding my face and
head because it was hurting so much. I
can remember the pain. I looked down
and I was totally covered in blood. My
clothes were just red and people all
around me were moving away and
screaming.
"I was just standing there, thinking it
was my head but then I touched my
face and it was all bleeding. It was
completely cut open from my left eyelid
down beneath my cheek."
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| Louise after the horrific assault |
The former Regents Park schoolgirl
had to attend numerous appointments
with specialist surgeons as her
injury began to heal. Now, with barely a
trace of the horrific injuries and back at
work, Louise said: "I think I am lucky in
that my scar has healed so well. Looking
back it could have been so much worse.
It's so easy for people to drink too
much and turn nasty but I
know what can happen in a
split second.
"In a moment someone could
be left blind or seriously disfigured
- taking glass out of the
bars would take away that risk.
"I would urge every bar and
club to consider going glass free
to stop other people going
through what I have had to go
through."
6:06pm Monday 21st April 2008
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CommentPosted by: me, in the kitchen on 11:13pm Mon 21 Apr 08
and yet samantha atrill only srved 11 months behind bars for what she did to this poor girl and is now back terrorising the people of southampton! charming why dont they start by actually punishing these animals that could do soething like that to another human being and it might put people off doing it in the first place!
(she was originally sentenced to four years)
anyone think i should get a job at the echo??
and yet samantha atrill only srved 11 months behind bars for what she did to this poor girl and is now back terrorising the people of southampton! charming why dont they start by actually punishing these animals that could do soething like that to another human being and it might put people off doing it in the first place!
(she was originally sentenced to four years)
anyone think i should get a job at the echo??
Posted by: me too, in the lounge on 8:11pm Tue 22 Apr 08
I'm guessing you're from Shirley Warren, hence how you know so much about this particular incident, am I guessing right? Nasty bunch the lot of them!
I'm guessing you're from Shirley Warren, hence how you know so much about this particular incident, am I guessing right? Nasty bunch the lot of them!
Posted by: Friend, Soton on 12:43am Wed 23 Apr 08
I think that "Me" should get her facts straight. Sam Attrill is not back living in Southampton and this attack on poor Louise goes way back and there is a lot of history between families, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends etc. Sam Attrill was actually behind bars for more than 11 months and her senetence got reduced on Appeal. Louise is not all sweetness and light as she makes out. I'm not saying that she deserved the attack but her bfriend has done far worse nasty crimes than glassing someone in the face. Pot, kettle and black spring to mind as does what goes around comes around!
I think that "Me" should get her facts straight. Sam Attrill is not back living in Southampton and this attack on poor Louise goes way back and there is a lot of history between families, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends etc. Sam Attrill was actually behind bars for more than 11 months and her senetence got reduced on Appeal. Louise is not all sweetness and light as she makes out. I'm not saying that she deserved the attack but her bfriend has done far worse nasty crimes than glassing someone in the face. Pot, kettle and black spring to mind as does what goes around comes around!
Posted by: me, in the kitchen on 11:10am Wed 23 Apr 08
no i dont and never have lived in shirley warren i am in fact from lordshill and i think you will find that she was put away on remand from boxing day 2006 and released from prison at the beginning of december 2007 - if you cant work that out then you are clearly one of the nappyhead attrills! the whole family are bullying scumbags and samantha is the worst one of them all she is a spiteful bully who does not seserve to be free and if she is not in southampton then why did i see her having a screaming match with a woman at a bus stop in town about two weeks ago?
no i dont and never have lived in shirley warren i am in fact from lordshill and i think you will find that she was put away on remand from boxing day 2006 and released from prison at the beginning of december 2007 - if you cant work that out then you are clearly one of the nappyhead attrills! the whole family are bullying scumbags and samantha is the worst one of them all she is a spiteful bully who does not seserve to be free and if she is not in southampton then why did i see her having a screaming match with a woman at a bus stop in town about two weeks ago?
Posted by: anon, soton on 1:28pm Thu 24 Apr 08
i know both parties involved and neither are innocent in all of this but louise is making out she is something shes not and it seems that whenever shes out in pubs she is the one causing trouble, and leaves her boyfriend to finish off whether it is male or female. and most of the time the "poor victim" is too out of her face to know whats happening around her.[quote]quote[/quote]
i know both parties involved and neither are innocent in all of this but louise is making out she is something shes not and it seems that whenever shes out in pubs she is the one causing trouble, and leaves her boyfriend to finish off whether it is male or female. and most of the time the "poor victim" is too out of her face to know whats happening around her.
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Posted by: Friend, Soton on 12:55am Fri 25 Apr 08
For your information Me Sam was not released from prison until Feb 2008 - maybe its YOU that should get her facts straight and she was on Tag when she came out. You may well have seen her in Soton but she is not living back there - as I good mate of hers I know this. I agree with Anon with her comments about Louise. She said that she was too scared to go out when that is a lie as she ended up getting it on with someone else boyfriend and is now with him causing rows and off her face the whole time!! She is not at all the poor whiter than whote victim that she makes herself out to be!
For your information Me Sam was not released from prison until Feb 2008 - maybe its YOU that should get her facts straight and she was on Tag when she came out. You may well have seen her in Soton but she is not living back there - as I good mate of hers I know this. I agree with Anon with her comments about Louise. She said that she was too scared to go out when that is a lie as she ended up getting it on with someone else boyfriend and is now with him causing rows and off her face the whole time!! She is not at all the poor whiter than whote victim that she makes herself out to be!
Posted by: anon, soton on 5:07pm Fri 25 Apr 08
I agree with me! Are you sure Sam and Louise are not related as they are as devious as each other. Louise did break up one of her best friend's realtionship by seeing her boyfriend behind her back
I agree with me! Are you sure Sam and Louise are not related as they are as devious as each other. Louise did break up one of her best friend's realtionship by seeing her boyfriend behind her back
Posted by: anomononmomymonoyono
us, england on 12:26pm Mon 28 Apr 08
[quote][bold]me[/bold] wrote:
and yet samantha atrill only srved 11 months behind bars for what she did to this poor girl and is now back terrorising the people of southampton! charming why dont they start by actually punishing these animals that could do soething like that to another human being and it might put people off doing it in the first place! (she was originally sentenced to four years) anyone think i should get a job at the echo??[/quote] no
me wrote:
and yet samantha atrill only srved 11 months behind bars for what she did to this poor girl and is now back terrorising the people of southampton! charming why dont they start by actually punishing these animals that could do soething like that to another human being and it might put people off doing it in the first place! (she was originally sentenced to four years) anyone think i should get a job at the echo??
no
Posted by: hahaha, southampton on 11:53am Tue 6 May 08
hahahahahahaha some people really havent got a life have they? especially the people from southampton! firstly Sams behaviour is not condoned (i hope the dumb assess reading this understands that word) but louise's behaviour is terrible. if she was an inncoent victim why would she trash somebody's flat, hold knives in their faces and bully their girlfriend? is that the image she is trying to portray in the papers?
it also seems like that some sad immature peoples (especially lordshill) need to get their facts right on release dates, where people are living and the actual argument!! Louise and her ex boyfriend have even hurt sams children so for your own sake dont gwt involved when you dont know anything about it. this is exactly the behaviour of southampton isint it - rumours and stirring which leads to stuff like this!
did anybody remember louise bottling a certain person in diva in 2005? oh no i didnt think they would as the 'model' aka junkie is a 'good person'. GET A LIFE.
hahahahahahaha some people really havent got a life have they? especially the people from southampton! firstly Sams behaviour is not condoned (i hope the dumb assess reading this understands that word) but louise's behaviour is terrible. if she was an inncoent victim why would she trash somebody's flat, hold knives in their faces and bully their girlfriend? is that the image she is trying to portray in the papers?
it also seems like that some sad immature peoples (especially lordshill) need to get their facts right on release dates, where people are living and the actual argument!! Louise and her ex boyfriend have even hurt sams children so for your own sake dont gwt involved when you dont know anything about it. this is exactly the behaviour of southampton isint it - rumours and stirring which leads to stuff like this!
did anybody remember louise bottling a certain person in diva in 2005? oh no i didnt think they would as the 'model' aka junkie is a 'good person'. GET A LIFE.
Posted by: soton on 12:08pm Tue 6 May 08
I totally agree haha as i have witnessed the behaviour of louise and her friends in shirley. She is a bully who is clearly trying to cretae an image for herself but not keeping it up very well as the people that actually KNOW these people know the truth. i remember the bottling incident in 2005 which is what i though of straight away wheni heard about this - what goes around comes around. she just wants money and sympathy (although she did get a crap boob job!)innocent? good? terrified? not the words that would come to me when describing louise. 'me' needs to get facts right and the right attitude in life!
I totally agree haha as i have witnessed the behaviour of louise and her friends in shirley. She is a bully who is clearly trying to cretae an image for herself but not keeping it up very well as the people that actually KNOW these people know the truth. i remember the bottling incident in 2005 which is what i though of straight away wheni heard about this - what goes around comes around. she just wants money and sympathy (although she did get a crap boob job!)innocent? good? terrified? not the words that would come to me when describing louise. 'me' needs to get facts right and the right attitude in life!
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