British Woman posts battered Selfie after Punches at Festival

Mary Brandon of London posted this image of her badly injured face after she was punched by man she didn’t know for telling him to keep his hands off her, she says. She said when the man tried to touch her and it didn’t work, she pushed him away. So he punched her, putting all his weight into it, says Mary Brandon, who posted before and after photos of her badly injured face on Facebook. The British woman had gone to the Notting Hill Carnival, a hugely popular London event that draws large crowds of celebrants. Brandon says a man grabbed her buttock. When she told him to stop it, he did it again, she said in a public Facebook post expressing her outrage. After receiving thousands of comments, Brandon apparently took down the posting or made it private. The man, who then ran off, has not been found.

“I pushed him away, exercising my right to tell a man to stop touching my body without my permission, so he took a swing at me and punched me in the face,” she wrote. I wanted to have a good time but instead I spent 9 hours in (an emergency room) because of this coward. I’m so pissed off that this man thought it was OK to hit me because I said no to him,” she wrote.