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 'She tried to put my head in the toilet'
    October 13 2009 at 07:24AM Get IOL on your
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A former Playboy Model of the Year punched a pretty brunette in the face and pushed her head down a toilet after flying into a jealous rage, a court heard.

Louise Glover, 26, looked a picture of composure yesterday as she walked into Hove Crown Court in towering stiletto heels and body-hugging black and white dress.

But a jury was told how the drunken glamour model "into a sudden rage" on a night out in a Brighton nightclub after accusing Maxine Hardcastle, the daughter of 80s pop star Paul Hardcastle, of giving her husband "inappropriate" looks.

Miss Hardcastle, 23, sobbed in the dock as she told how the blonde, who has appeared in a string of "lads mags" and on a BBC show entitled Glamour Girls, tore out handfuls of hair and fractured her nose in an unprovoked attack.
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Almost two years after the attack Miss Hardcastle said she still had to hide her bald patch under a side-swept fringe.

"The doctors say it may never grow back," she said.

Miss Hardcastle's father, whose Vietnam War-inspired hit 19 stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks in 1985, was in court for the first day of the trial.

His daughter, who has followed in his footsteps becoming a musician and DJ, told the court how she had met Glover twice before the incident, which unfolded in the early hours of December 16, 2007.

Glover had invited her and friend Nancy Stillwell to an event she was hosting at the Gentleman's Turf pub, in Brighton.

The two friends travelled from Essex to the seaside town for the event, and then continued on as a group, which included both Miss Glover and her husband Ben, to the city's popular Oceana club.

Recounting how a pleasant event descended into violence, an emotional Miss Hardcastle told how she was in the toilet when Miss Glover approached.

"Louise knocked on the door of my toilet cubicle," she said. "She squeezed in and locked the door. There was some sort of problem to do with her husband.

"She said Nancy and myself were looking at him inappropriately.

"I hadn't even spoken to him in the club.

"First of all she was really angry and annoyed and saying she knows what Essex girls are like. Two minutes later she was saying to us, "You are such lovely girls. I know I am being paranoid".

"She was flipping. One minute she was trying to be nice, the next minute she was telling me she was going to hurt me if I went near him."

Miss Hardcastle said that Miss Stillwell left the cubicle after Glover spilled drink on her dress. Left alone, Miss Hardcastle said she tired to end the conversation with Glover because she was drunk.

But then, the court was told, Glover flew into a rage.

"She took her hand and punched me in the face," said Miss Hardcastle.

"I was on the floor and crying and she picked me up by the hair and did same thing again.

"I fell to the floor again. I hit my head on the wall. I realised that my nose was broken or something had happened. There was blood everywhere."

Miss Hardcastle said Glover picked her up by the hair again and smashed her head against the toilet.

"She did that loads and then she got my head and tried to put it in the toilet,' she said.

"It was very forceful because I was on my knees and I couldn't get up.

"I remember thinking I couldn't breathe through my nose because of the blood, if she puts my head in the toilet I am not going to be able to breath."

She told the jury that Glover and her husband ran off.

"I walked out and everybody was screaming," she said.

"I didn't realise what I looked like until I saw a mirror.

"Most of my hair was gone. My nose was on the other side of my face. I had a big black egg on my head. I looked like I had tomato ketchup poured all over me."

Glover, a former professional trampolinist who moved to Los Angeles after the incident, denies assault causing actual bodily harm.

She claims she reacted in self defence after Miss Hardcastle blocked her exit from the toilets following a row.

The jury was later discharged over a legal wrangle and the case was adjourned until December 14.- Daily Mail

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