Woman who bit off attacker's tongue is living in fear

The 27-year-old Nepalese woman who bit off part of the tongue of the man who sexually assaulted her is living with the fear that he will seek revenge. She feels “it’s not fair” that he only received a suspended jail term after making her feel “doomed”. “So after what he did to me he is at home? He can do it again? It’s just not fair… This man could have killed me… After what happened I was broken. I was crying all the time because it never happened in my life… But thank God everything is OK because I fought back,” said Ms Shrestha who preferred not to reveal her first name. On Thursday 35-year-old Crispin Grima from Santa Luċija, pleaded guilty to violent indecent assault and being drunk in public in the early hours of June 1. He was handed a four-month jail term suspended for a year. During his arraignment he spoke with some difficulty because of the injury to his tongue. Because he pleaded guilty the day he was charged, Ms Shrestha’s version was never heard in court. Standing in the road where the incident took place, the marketing student who has been living in Malta for four years recounted how she was on her way to her Msida flat after a 12-hour shift in a restaurant when...