Semi-pro footballer kicked woman down stairs after drinker 'refused to apologise' for launching chair
Semi-professional footballer Lois Greenwood kicked Chloe Finnigan down the stairs of a bar in Royton, Oldham, after a dispute between their friend groups. The incident, which occurred on November 18, 2023, left Finnigan with a fractured kneecap and lasting physical and mental health issues. Greenwood, who worked in the NHS, was given a suspended 21-month prison sentence, 270 hours of unpaid work, and rehabilitation requirements. She is set to lose her NHS job as a result.
Semi-pro footballer booted woman down bar stairs after friend refused to apologise for chair-throw
A semi-professional footballer who shoved a woman down the stairs of a Royton bar with an “extremely forceful kick” is set to lose her NHS job, a court has heard.
Lois Greenwood, 25, attacked Chloe Finnigan as the victim tried to leave the Barclay restaurant in the early hours of 18 November 2023 after a stool thrown by one of Greenwood’s friends had “brushed” Ms Finnigan.
Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court was told that Ms Finnigan, who suffers brittle-bone disease, asked the man to apologise, “rather than apologise, the other male started an argument,” prosecutor Lisa Boocock said. Ms Finnigan decided to walk away and was descending the stairs when Greenwood, drunk and coming up the steps, delivered what Judge Tina Landale called “a deliberately aimed, extremely forceful kick” from behind.
Ms Finnigan fractured her kneecap, spent ten months in physiotherapy and had to wear a full-leg cast. “This injury has completely robbed me of my independence,” she said in a statement. “I shouldn’t have had to go through any of this in the first place.”
Greenwood, of Alma Street, Radcliffe, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm. She received a 21-month suspended sentence, 270 hours of unpaid work and ten rehabilitation days. The judge said the attack was “isolated but appalling” and accepted Greenwood, previously of good character, is “appalled by her own actions” and will be dismissed from the NHS career she “loved and coveted”.
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