Woman who threw milkshake over Nigel Farage spared an immediate jail term
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Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, hurled the banana-flavoured drink at Reform UK leader outside Clacton pub ahead of summer’s general election. A woman who admitted to assault by beating after throwing milkshake over Nigel Farage during his election campaign has been spared an immediate prison sentence.
![[Victoria Thomas Bowen leaving Westminster Magistrates' Court in London in October, after pleading guilty to assault by beating and criminal damage]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/10/21/11/04c5758c-ac89-40d3-bca1-ef134abfa6d5.jpg)
Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, hurled a banana-flavoured McDonald’s milkshake at the Reform UK leader outside a pub in Clacton-on-Sea ahead of the general election. Mr Farage, who is now MP for Clacton, was covered in the drink after the cup was thrown at him as he left the Moon and Starfish Wetherspoon pub in the Essex seaside town on 4 June.
![[Mr Farage had been addressing supporters at a rally during the general election campaign and was left with the yellow liquid splattered across his dark blue suit]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/07/14/12/c26f43f7fa7d60f9e2b390c1fca9b228Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzIxMDM4NDc4-2.76414608.jpg)
Thomas Bowen, who is an OnlyFans model, admitted the offence and criminal damage at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in October. She was sentenced to 13 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months. The 25-year-old, of St Osyth Road in the seaside town, pleaded guilty to causing £17.50 of damage to a jacket belonging to Mr Farage’s security officer, James Woolfenden.
Mr Farage had been addressing supporters at a rally during the general election campaign and was left with the yellow liquid splattered across his dark blue suit. In a witness statement read out in court in October, he said he was not injured but “this incident caused me concern as I have only been going about my job” and that he tries to “have as much public engagement as possible”.
