Woman’s terror after high heel plunged into face ‘in racist attack’

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Darcy Diaz was attacked after leaving her friend’s birthday
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A teaching assistant has spoken of her terror after a woman plunged a heel into her forehead after allegedly hurling racist abuse at her and a friend.

Darcy Diaz, 23, was celebrating a friend’s 25th birthday in Kentish Town on February 27 when a fight broke out with a neighbouring party.

She claimed the group turned on her friend, calling her racist names and tearing off her wig.

The Year 6 learning support worker filmed the resulting altercation on her phone which, she says, angered two women in the group with one grabbing her from behind.

She claimed one woman pulled on her ponytail whilst another plunged a high heel shoe into her face narrowly missing her eye.

The high heel shoe caused a gaping wound to Ms Diaz’s forehead
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She told The Standard: “I couldn’t move. I was so scared and felt so helpless.

“This girl came forward to me and bashed the heel on my forehead. I can still picture her coming at me. Just then the police arrived and I’m so grateful to them because I don’t know what would have happened.

“I was taken to A&E and I was bleeding all over the front desk. I had to be taken to the bathroom before I could get stitched up.”

Ms Diaz said that she hasn’t returned to work as a primary school teacher at a local school and is scared to walk the streets around Camden in case she runs into the same group.

“My eye is still swollen, she said.

“I don’t want to lie to the kids about what happened and I don’t want them to worry about me so I haven’t gone back in.

“I’ve never been in a fight before and I’m really not a fighter. It could’ve been anyone.”

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “Police were called at around 1am on Sunday, 27 February to a report of a fight between a group of people on Queen’s Crescent, NW5.

“Officers attended and gave first aid to a woman, aged 23, who had facial injuries. She was taken to hospital for treatment.

“A woman, aged 22, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm (ABH). She has since been released.

“Enquiries are ongoing.”

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