Miss Universe GB finalist 'had bite marks, could hardly speak and could not stand up on her own' after ex attacked her and threatened to kill her and her boyfriend, court hears
A Miss Universe GB finalist was 'left with bite marks and could hardly speak or stand up on her own' after her ex attacked her and threatened to kill her new lover, a court heard.
Model Chloe Othen, 34, was allegedly attacked at her ex-boyfriend's £1.5milliom Knightsbridge home on October 15, 2022, after being invited over by text.
Whisky merchant Ricky Lawrence, 33, is accused of assaulting Ms Othen.
Her now boyfriend, Hatton Garden jeweller Bora Guccuk, 41, told Aldersgate House Crown Court that he had seen Ms Othen after the attack and she was 'bleeding in certain places'.
'She had bite marks she could hardly speak. She was in a state of shock. She had cuts on her face, her arm. Bruises on her neck, bite marks.'
Mr Guccuk told the court that Lawrence had threatened to kill both him and Ms Othen. Lawrence's defence allege that it was Guccuk who assaulted Chloe Othen.
Ms Othen has told she thought she would die after she was pinned down, punched and repeatedly bitten by Lawrence.
Jurors heard Lawrence later sent messages to Ms Othen saying: 'I will do everything in my power to f-k you up.'
Lawrence and Othen had been in a relationship for around six months between December 2021 and May 2022 but remained 'on and off' after it ended.
Ms Othen, a finalist in Miss Universe GB in 2015, is a model and internet personality with 284,000 Instagram followers.
She went over to Lawrence's apartment in Hans Place and a conversation between the pair led to Miss Othen feeling she needed to leave.
Ms Othen's partner, Bora Guccuk, called her and Lawrence picked up the phone, threatening to stab them both, jurors have heard.
Giving evidence Mr Guccuk said Ms Othen had moved in with him for a time at his apartment in Kensington.
Mr Guccuk said he was aware Lawrence had been abusive to Ms Othen.
'It was abusive - that's why she came back (to me),' he said.
But Lawrence carried on pursuing Ms Othen after their relationship came to an end, the court heard.
Mr Guccuk said Lawrence would 'turn up, even in other countries' even when he was with Ms Othen in Mikanos.
'He turned up uninvited and caused a drama, problems.
'He turned up at nightclub. He would stalk her on Instagram and just turn up.'
On the night of the alleged assault he said he called Ms Othen multiple times because he was 'worried' about her.
In one of the calls he said to the operator: 'My girlfriend is being held against her will in his place right now. She's screaming for help, screaming for help.'
'He's been stalking her. She's screaming in the background for help. She's in a kidnap situation there's no time.
'He's got her phone. She's screaming in the background saying help me.'
He told the operator: 'This guy is crazy. He's been assaulting her, turning up wherever she's been. Watching her social media.'
Ms Davies asked: 'At any point from arriving at the hotel and seeing Chloe were you alone with her?'
He said Ms Othen went to the nearby Berkeley Hotel to see her friend Alexandra Ivanovic.
'She could barely stand up. She needed Alex to support her', he replied.
In cross examination Tom Wyatt, defending, asked Mr Guccuk: 'Are you a jealous man?'
'I wouldn't say that, no', replied Mr Guccuk.
'Are you a violent man?'
'No,' the jeweller replied.
'Are you a man who has no problem paying for a woman's life, covering her rent while she is sleeping with another man?'
'I make good money, I'm wealthy it doesn't bother me', replied Mr Guccuk.
'I knew we had an easy, open relationship.'
He said that after Chloe had broken up with him, Lawrence started stalking her.
'He would still turn up at places and places I regularly go to. He turned up, caused issues.
It was an ongoing stalking situation.'
Mr Wyatt suggested to Mr Guccuk that they were in an exclusive relationship, which is why he phoned her, worried about where she might be.
'You were in a normal relationship. An exclusive relationship, and that is why you were worried about where your partner might be'.
'Not true', he replied.
'Why are you laughing, Mr Guccuk?'
'Why are you getting annoyed, are you struggling with your questioning?'
Mr Wyatt pointed out that he had not mentioned Lawrence's threats to stab them both in his call with the police.
'Not once did you mention that threat made against you.'
Mr Guccuk said: 'I was on the move. I was more concerned with going to help her than giving exact details to the operator. I knew that that statement would be taken from me.'
'You don't think that he threatened to stab you in the neck was worth mentioning?
Mr Guccuk said: 'I was panicking for her life. You can not expect me to go into particulars when the operator is asking me particular questions anyhow...'
Mr Wyatt said: 'I suggest that you thought she was held against her will by a harmless idiot who was following her around because that is how she painted him to you.'
'Absolutely not', replied Mr Guccuk.
Mr Wyatt told Mr Guccuk that he would have noticed that Chloe had changed from the clothes that she was wearing at a fashion event that night to go and see Lawrence.
'When you found her and saw what she was wearing you would have realised that you were being cheated on behind your back'.
'Absurd', replied Mr Guccuk.
'You reacted violently and jealousy and assaulted Chloe Othen'.
Mr Guccuk said: 'Absolutely absurd.'
'The injuries she sustained were from you'.
'Absolutely absurd.'
Following his arrest Ricky Lawrence wept and told officers: 'This is ridiculous. She's ruining my life. I asked her to leave.'
Lawrence later gave police a prepared statement in which he confirmed his relationship with Chloe Othen began in January 2022 and ended four months later in May 'because she aborted my child.'
He added: 'She had been drinking quite heavily throughout the relationship.
'I no longer wished to be with her.
'Since the end of our relationship she has initiated contact with me and has met up with me.'
Lawrence insisted that Ms Othen turned up at his home on 15 October 2022.
'I told her to leave...I didn't want any trouble with her or her partner.
'I repeatedly told her to leave. She began to scratch and hit at me.'
Lawrence said he received a lengthy scratch on his abdomen, adding: 'I didn't use unlawful violence against her.
'I believe the allegations are malicious as she didn't want to end her current relationship.
'I didn't hold her maliciously against her will.'
Lawrence said he phoned police to get her removed from his flat.
Lawrence, of Hans Place, Knightsbridge, denies assault causing actual bodily harm.
The trial continues.
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