An asylum seeker who left a young woman in a ‘crumpled bloody mess’ after knocking her unconscious outside a nightclub has been jailed for six months.
Abdoela Berhan punched 20-year-old Cleo Lake ‘full force’ in the face in the early hours of December 7, 2024, when she and her friends rejected his advances.
He was found guilty of assaulting Miss Lake at the Cameo nightclub in Bournemouth just a week after being convicted of attacking a Subway worker in a separate incident.
The Eritrean national, 35, maintained his innocence throughout the trial – claiming to have acted in self-defence, despite CCTV footage recording
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