A 19-year-old British woman endured a 13-hour torture session at the hands of friends who thought she had stolen their mobile phone. Katie McNamara had her hair chopped off and was forced to lick her own blood off the floor after being repeatedly kicked, punched, stabbed, burned and then locked in a cupboard during a violent bashing. She was admitted to hospital for four months and her hearing was permanently damaged.
Among her attackers was Francesca Raby, 18, a former friend who had lured the victim to a house under the guise of patching up their broken friendship. Raby had earlier accused McNamara of stealing her mobile phone but called her later that day to apologize and asked her to go to a house.
When Ms McNamara arrived with another friend, Raby and her companion Kelly Louise Garrity, 26, wrenched her into the kitchen by her hair and began beating her. McNamara's friend was forced to flee the house after being threatened when she tried to intervene to stop the attack.
The pair then took McNamara in a taxi to another house, where she was also beaten by two men. Raby and Garrity burned the victim with cigarettes and hurled a kitchen knife at her before locking her in a cupboard. The two women then showed off their work to a female neighbor who visited the house the next day.
"I thought I was going to die. They were going to keep me another night if the neighbor had not turned up," McNamara told the press after Raby and Garrity were convicted on assault and false imprisonment charges.
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