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KENDAL CABBIES’S NOSE BROKEN JUST AFTER IT WAS FIXED IN SNORING CURE OPERATION


A Kendal taxi driver had a major nose operation to cure a persistent snoring problem - only to have it broken just weeks later in an alcohol- fuelled assault.


Julia Chaplin, of Storth, appeared at Carlisle Crown Court where she admitted causing actual bodily harm to Gordon Welch in an attack which left him needing an opera- tion to repair the damage.


Speaking after the hearing, Mr Welch, of High Garth, said he had broken his nose


aged 15 and had suf- fered from heavy snoring since. In July this year, the 42-year-old taxi driver, who works for Castle Taxis, had a rhinoplas- ty and septoplasty at Barrow’s Furness General Hospital in an effort to cure the prob- lem.


“The operations straightened my nose and removed obstruc- tions in the nasal cavity. It seemed to be work- ing and my girlfriend said it was calming down,” he told the Westmorland Gazette. However, the attack


left Mr Welch needing another operation. “I went back into the hospital four days after the attack to get it straightened again,” he said.


“I’m going to have to have a further opera- tion because the consultants fear it has left lasting damage and affected the heal- ing process of the original operation.” The court heard that the 38-year-old hailed Mr Welch’s cab to take her home after a works night out in Kendal on August 10. He took her to a cash


machine so she could get money to pay the £37 fare, but when she was unable to do so he told her it was com- pany policy to take her back to where she had started, said prosecu- tor Becky McGregor. On the way back into town Chaplin hit the driver in the face, breaking his nose and making it bleed, the court heard.


In mitigation defence barrister Tim Evans said that Chaplin had


‘taken more drink than was good for her’ and she was ‘deeply ashamed and embar- rassed’.


She was ordered to pay Mr Welch £2,500 compensation, with £150 court costs. She must also carry out 120 hours’ unpaid community work. Mmmm… Now that is unfortunate. Fancy going through all that surgery, only to have one’s face bashed and to have to go through


it all again. That lady should do more than carry out 120 hours’ paid community work; in addition she should have been made to watch the surgery live as it took place. Or even scrub up for the surgeon. In Biblical times one’s punish- ment was to endure that which the miscre- ant had administered. So perhaps the lady should have her own nose broken in public - Ed.


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