Nigel Farage has blasted the sentence given to an OnlyFans model who threw a McDonald’s milkshake over him as he kicked off his general election campaign earlier this year.
Victoria Thomas Bowen tossed the drink in the Reform leader’s face as he stepped out of the Moon and Starfish Wetherspoon pub in Clacton-on-Sea on June 4.
The previous day, Farage had made the surprise announcement that he would be running as MP for the seat in Essex after previously ruling himself out.
Thomas Bowen, 25, admitted assault by beating and criminal damage at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in October.
She pleaded guilty to causing £17.50 of damage to a jacket belonging to James Woolfenden, Farage’s security officer.
In an appearance in the same court this morning, she was sentenced to 13 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.
Posting on X, Farage said the sentence was the ‘latest example of two-tier justice’, adding: ‘We now live in a country where you can assault a Member of Parliament and not go to prison.’
The maximum sentence for assault by beating is 26 weeks’ imprisonment.
Farage said in a witness statement read out in court the incident ’caused me concern as I have only been going about my job’, although he was not injured.
He added: ‘I’m saddened that this has happened at a public campaign.’
Speaking to police in an interview shortly after the incident, Thomas Bowen said she learned where Farage would be on the day from a Facebook post.
She told officers she ‘does not agree with his political views’.
Giving further details from her police interview, prosecutor Nishma Shah said at October’s hearing: ‘She acknowledges that this was an assault and that the liquid would have gone over the jackets of him and others and caused them to get cleaning, but she states that Nigel would be able to afford this.
‘She states she did not regret her actions.’
Farage made an appearance at the magistrates’ court earlier this year to hear Thomas Bowen plead guilty.
He was previously soaked by a Five Guys caramel milkshake on the campaign trail in 2019.
The assailant in that case, Paul Crowther, was ordered to pay Farage’s suit-cleaning bill.
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