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Lacey Knight, 21, suffered fractured cheekbones and internal bleeding on her face after her head was smashed against the bar.

Her mum Chel Orchard, 42, claims the vile lad battered Lacey after she told him she wasn't interested when he tried to chat her up.

Photos of the devastating injuries show Lacey with two black eyes and cuts to her brow.

She also suffered a fractured nose.

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The mum-of-one was attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning when she was having Christmas drinks with friends in Elements nightclub, in Clacton-on-Sea.

Lacey said: "He tried talking to us and we weren't interested, then he put my fingers up in my face and I said 'why are you doing that?'

"I looked at him and he walked around a few people and smacked me in the face and after that it was just a blur."

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Her mum added: “My daughter doesn't remember a lot because she was in and out of consciousness on the club floor.

"But what she does remember, and from people who have come forward, is a guy tried to chat her up and because she refused his advances, he punched her in the face."

Chel's Facebook appeal to track witness has been shared more than 1,000 times.

She claimed witnesses said nobody stopped the attack and the suspect was then allowed to leave the club unchallenged.

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Chel added: "He smashed her head up and down repeatedly on the bar but nobody did anything.

"One of the door staff who came at the end of it all let the guy walk out of the club with his friends."

Lacey has since been spitting up blood because of the injuries, which also include a fractured nose, her mum said.