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Sick far-right thugs gloated on Facebook after a young woman was seriously injured during violent clashes in Liverpool .

Abbie James was hit with a cobblestone during clashes between members of a neo-Nazi group, led by the North West Infidels, and anti-fascist activists outside St George’s Hall.

The 21-year-old could be scarred for life and may need plastic surgery after the heavy object hit her in the head, the Liverpool Echo reported .

Today Abbie posted an update on her Facebook page to say that her injury could be worse than first thought. She said: “Hair and a piece of the stone that hit me was lodged into my skull and I’ve had to have a little part of my skull scraped away.

“Just so thankful it wasn’t a child as the force would have killed them.”

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After the initial story went online, the North West Infidels far-right group posted a link to it on its official Twitter account, along with the message:

“You come to attack us and face the consequences simple as that scarred for life result!!!”

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Abbie said she was only present at the scene by chance when she and boyfriend Chris Hall were walking into the city centre from his home in Kensington on Saturday afternoon and noticed the far-right rally and counter-protest.

She told the ECHO: “We saw the people on the steps of St George’s Hall and got a bit closer to see what flags they were waving.

“More and more people started turning up and smoke bombs started going off.

“The police dogs came out and I said to my boyfriend that we should probably go, because it was getting pretty terrifying.

“As soon as I had said that something struck me in the middle of my head.

“I didn’t pass out but I was dazed and fell to the floor.”

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Abbie, who lives in Huddersfield, said Liverpool John Moores student Chris carried her to a nearby police car.

She said: “The protestors on the steps, wearing the black masks, were all cheering as I was carried out of the crowd with blood all over my face.”

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The post by North West Infidels was roundly condemned by people who commented on it. ComradeBlackWolf tweeted: “Well done lads, you hit a local girl just looking at your demo, which is why you were there with a brick,” adding later: “She didn’t stand on any side of the demonstrations, there is no way you can justify this.”

But the far-right thugs remained unrepentant. Although they were penned in by riot police on the steps of St George’s Hall, the group posted on its Facebook page: “We took the high ground and we held it until we wanted to go. We could have stayed there all night if we really wanted to.”

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Merseyside Unite Against Fascism [UAF], who staged a counter-protest against the far-right rally, said that the North West Infidels (NWI) were accompanied by members of a neo-Nazi group from Poland.

UAF spokesman Paul Jenkins said: “The opposition shown by the people of Liverpool against the NWI nazis was, once again, superb. The fascists showed their true colours with their openly Nazi salutes, chants of ‘sieg heil’, and disgracefully scrawling swastikas on St George’s Hall.”

Thirty four men were arrested during the clashes between the two groups.