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Victim of Berrabah fracas says Sugababe should be sacked
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 September 2011
The woman who was assaulted by Sugababe Amelle Berrabah at a London club last year has said she does not believe the singer is sorry, and that she should be sacked from the girl group as a result.
Berrabah was found guilty of common assault earlier this month after a fracas with one Danielle Dodoo at Soho hang-out Alto last year. According to Dodoo, Berrabah attacked her after she told the singer to “watch where she was going”. The rather drunk Babe put her hands around Dodoo’s neck, scratching her in the process, and threatened to bite her nose off. Lovely.
Dodoo says she initially made a complaint to the club’s management, but after waiting two hours for them to do something about it she discovered Alto was run by Berrabah’s boyfriend, so chose to leave and report the incident to the police instead.
For her part, Berrabah denied the run-in was serious enough to constitute assault, saying she may have pinched Dodoo, but did not grip or scratch her. However, the judge hearing the case concluded that the singer had inflicted “nasty, unpleasant” injuries in the incident. However, he added that he felt Dodoo had taken her complaint this far partly out of “revenge and spite”, and therefore let the Babe off with a conditional discharge, ordering her to pay just £250 in compensation to her victim.
Speaking to the Daily Star since the ruling, Dodoo said: “Amelle may have apologised to the band, her fans and her management but she hasn’t once said sorry to me. How can she be a good role model for young girls? It’s disgusting. All I did was ask her politely to stop barging into me, when she launched herself at me. She’s not sorry for what she’s done. If she was, she’d have made a public apology to me. The bottom line is that I don’t believe Amelle deserves to be in a group like the Sugababes after she’s been convicted of a crime”.
