Teen girl’s FACE ‘bitten off’ by stranger on bus in horrifying 5-minute attack which left her needing fifty stitches

A TEEN miss who had her look ''bitten off'' by a alien connected a autobus was near needing 50 stitches.

Ella Dowling, 19, got connected her accustomed autobus location erstwhile chap passenger, Darren Taylor, 53, began making inappropriate comments astir her and her friends.

As Ella was sat down, Taylor grabbed her look and repeatedly spot her chemoreceptor and rima during a horrific five-minute ordeal.

With the assistance of friends, Ella managed to get distant and Taylor was detained by members of the nationalist until police arrived.

He was arrested for causing grievous bodily harm with intent aft leaving Ella's near nostril down to the little portion of her lip, hanging off.

The close broadside of her articulator had besides been divided unfastened and she suffered ''visible wound marks'' implicit her chemoreceptor and mouth.

The teen was swiftly taken to Cheltenham Hospital past November earlier being transferred to Gloucester Hospital for exigency surgery.

Taylor appeared astatine Gloucester Crown Court in March this twelvemonth wherever helium pleaded blameworthy to GBH with intent and was sentenced astatine the aforesaid tribunal connected 18 July.

He was handed a six-year and nine-month jailhouse condemnation and a lifelong restraining order.

Ella, a societal enactment pupil astatine Portsmouth University, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, said yesterday: "The symptom I felt erstwhile helium sank his teeth into my look is thing which volition enactment with maine forever.

"He was similar a canine with a toy; moving his caput broadside to side.

"I enactment my hands astir the backmost of his caput due to the fact that I knew if I didn't helium would rip my articulator and chemoreceptor disconnected completely.

"When I saw my look for the archetypal clip aft the attack, I didn't recognise my ain reflection, and I couldn't look successful the reflector for months aft that.

"I haven't utilized the autobus since due to the fact that of my PTSD.

"If I permission the house, I person to beryllium connected the telephone with my mum oregon a person due to the fact that I'm terrified that I'm going to beryllium attacked again.

"Eating and drinking tin inactive beryllium achy if I devour connected a definite side.

"People accidental that my scar is healing good but for me, it's much than a scar, it's a disfigurement and a imperishable reminder of what's happened to me.

"I grin and talk otherwise which is thing I'm going to person to larn to unrecorded with for the remainder of my life."

'HORRIFIC PAIN'

On 18 November 2023, aft a time successful Cheltenham, Ella got the autobus location astatine 8.15 p.m. with 2 friends.

While connected the fig 94 bus, they encountered "intoxicated" Taylor making lewd remarks astir the teenager's appearance.

Despite attempting to extremity the interaction, Taylor refused to permission the radical of girls alone.

As the autobus came to its past stop, Taylor launched astatine Ella, biting her rima and chemoreceptor leaving her near nostril to her little articulator ''hanging off''.

"I couldn't shriek due to the fact that helium had my articulator successful his mouth, it was disgusting," Ella said.

"I noticed him erstwhile we got connected the bus, helium was unusual and kept asking 'are you girls disconnected out?'.

"When we told him to permission america alone, helium started calling america 'white trash' and that helium was a "gangster."

"It took my friends a fewer seconds to realise what helium was doing and past they started screaming astatine him to get disconnected me.

"The symptom was horrific and I could consciousness his full assemblage shaking- erstwhile I looked down astatine my apparel aft they were covered successful blood."

During a constabulary interrogation portion nether arrest, Taylor said helium "was not a good man" and that "he indispensable person mislaid power and cannot spell astir hurting people".

He besides said that helium was remorseful.

'I'M A SURVIVOR'

Since the attack, Ella has had a two-and-a-half-hour reconstructive NHS process to hole the harm caused to her face.

As advised by her doctors, owed to the enormity of her injuries, Ella volition beryllium physically scarred for life.

Detective Constable Sophie McGough said: “The injuries Taylor caused were immoderate of the worst I person ever seen. His actions that evening were awful, and I americium gladsome that helium volition present walk clip down bars."

Gloucestershire Police person present advised that Taylor has filed an entreaty of his condemnation which whilst being a further hit, Ella is determined "not to beryllium defined" by her attack.

Brave Ella said: "Whilst I'm gladsome he's been sentenced, there's nary mode helium couldn't be, it was each caught connected CCTV.

"I had to defer assemblage for a twelvemonth and determination backmost location due to the fact that of the attack.

"I inactive don't cognize to this time wherefore helium did it.

"I've started assemblage again this twelvemonth and I'm hopeful that I'll beryllium capable to continue.

"I garbage to beryllium defined by this due to the fact that I'm not a victim, I'm a survivor.

"I privation to get backmost to the bubbly and outgoing idiosyncratic I utilized to beryllium but it's going to instrumentality time."