A British teenager has spoken out about a 13-hour torture session she endured at the hands of two friends who accused her of stealing a mobile phone.
Katie McNamara had her hair chopped off and was forced to lick her own blood off the floor after being punched, kicked, stabbed and locked in a cupboard, the UK's Daily Mail reports.
The 19-year-old was also burned with cigarettes and had a knife flung at her after being lured to the home of her friend Francesca Raby, 18, under the pretence of repairing their friendship.
McNamara has now spoken of the ordeal, telling the Daily Mail she believed she was going to die at the hands of her attackers.
"They were going to keep me another night if the neighbour had not turned up," she was quoted as saying.
"They cut my hair and then put my face into a mirror and said, 'you don't look so pretty now'.
"I kept asking them to stop but they carried on, laughing at me.
"I was really scared when they were stamping on my head."
The nightmare began last November when Raby invited McNamara to her home, after the latter accused her of stealing her mobile phone.
When she arrived at the home with a friend, Raby and her 26-year-old accomplice Kelly Louise Garrity yanked McNamara into the kitchen by her hair and began beating her.
After the attack, the pair showed off their work to a female neighbour and threatened to kill her if she reported the bashing.
After being hospitalised, McNamara, spent four months in hospital receiving treatment.
Her hearing has been permanently damaged.
Raby and Garrity were convicted on assault and imprisonment charges.
Garrity was sentenced to four years in prison while Raby was ordered to spend 40 months in a young offender's institution.
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