Teenager's torment over savage club attack

Jordan Jones' nose was left hanging off after it was bitten in the attack.

The aspiring footballer is now likely to carry scars for the rest of his life as well as suffering with breathing problems.

Jordan, 18, who lives in The Rock, Telford, was on a night out with friends at Pussycats nightclub in Wellington on April 5 when he was approached out of the blue by 19-year-old Thomas Mitchell.

He said: "I was in the club, I hadn't seen him all night, didn't know anything of him, when out of nowhere he had his head against mine.

"Before I knew it, he was biting my nose. When he eventually let go, one of my friends took me outside, we went in the toilet and someone passed me a mirror and I saw my nose was hanging off. After that it was a bit of a blur."

Jordan was rushed to the Princess Royal Hospital, before being taken to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent.

He had emergency surgery to clean the wound and reattach his nose.

The teenager, who works as a sports coach and is a semi-professional footballer, said the attack had left him with problems that could permanently affect his dreams of becoming a top flight football player.

"I was told I had severed the nerves in my nose and that could affect my football career due to nose bleeds if it is knocked," he explained

"I may never get the feeling back in my nose, at the moment it is totally numb. It has also affected my breathing and I may struggle from time to time.

"In terms of my work, because I work with children in schools, lots of the kids always ask what's happened to my nose."

He is now set to return to hospital in two weeks to see if there is any further treatment to reduce the scarring or improve the breathing through his nose.

For the attack, Mitchell, of Millstream Way, Leegomery, Telford, was sentenced this month to two months detention in a young offenders institution.

Jordan said: "I didn't want to go to any of the court hearings, I just wanted to forget about it.

"I just wanted him to understand the repercussions of what he had done, how it had affected me and my family and how I was feeling.

"I still can get upset when I see pictures of myself. I'm coping more now, I know I am going to have a scar and that is probably going to be there for the rest of my life.

"It took me a while before I even wanted to go out of the house for a walk."

Jordan's parents, Donna and Alan, said that for them, the attack had been a "nightmare".

Mrs Jones, 44, said: "It was quite traumatic really. We didn't know what his nose would end up like. He was lucky it wasn't any worse."