I'm scared to go out until my attacker is caught, says glass attack victim Nicole

Left with a four-inch cut to the back of her head, the 20-year-old has today spoken of how she was worried for her life during the brutal attack. Terrified Nicole is scared to go out while her attacker is still at large.

Nicole had been out with her mother Lorraine, aged 47, and two of her friends at Benjamins in Halesowen when the assault took place.

She said: "We were on the dance floor and a man kept backing into me.

"I made it clear to him that he should leave me alone – then I looked round at him again and he was holding a glass bottle upside down in his hand as if to say 'come on then'.

"My mother got in between us to say 'go away' to him - but then he hit my mother and, as she fell, she pulled me down with her. "I can't remember what exactly happened next, but by our cuts we think he smashed the bottle against the back of our heads while we were on the floor.

"The next thing I knew, he was gone."

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She added: "It was really scary – I remember thinking this is serious, something bad could happen here, much worse than the cuts to our heads. I was worried for our lives."

The mother and daughter, who live in Halesowen, were taken to hospital following the attack in the early hours of November 16. Nicole had seven stitches to the cut on her head. Her mother needed a gash on her head sealed up with glue and stitches for a cut on her eyebrow.

Nicole, who had to take three weeks off work, said: "I wear my hair up at work and I can feel the bald patch around the scar - I don't think hair will ever grow back there, it's terrible."

She added: "This man needs to be a bigger person and admit to what he has done and clear his conscious, who says he won't do something like this again."

Dc Dave Hackett, from West Midlands Police, said: "This attack has been a life changing event for the mum and her daughter and I would urge anyone who can help to contact us immediately."