An OnlyFans model accused of throwing a banana milkshake at Nigel Farage during the general election campaign has denied assault by beating and criminal damage after appearing in court this morning.
Victoria Thomas Bowen pleaded not guilty to the charges after the Reform UK leader, 60, was drenched with the McDonald’s drink in Clacton, Essex, on June 4.
The 25-year-old model has since used her sudden notoriety to promote her OnlyFans page, using the lyrics: ‘My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.’
The mother-of-one appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today in a tight black dress and leather jacket, with her blonde hair down in waves and sunglasses on top of her head.
Representing Bowen, lawyer Caroline Higgins said: ‘My client strongly protests her innocence and looks forward to fighting these unjust charges in court.’
Prosecutors say £30 of criminal damage was caused to a jacket belonging to James Woolfenden.
Prosecutor David Burns said: ‘The substance was deliberately thrown over the complainant. This was a deliberate act.’
If proved, the offence of assault by beating, contrary to Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, carries a maximum penalty of six months’ custody and/or an unlimited fine.
Being convicted of the criminal damage charge could lead to three months’ custody and/or a maximum fine of £2,500.
Bowen was released on unconditional bail to appear before the same court for trial on October 21.
She is a Jeremy Corbyn-supporting OnlyFans model who hails from a family of Brexiteers, MailOnline previously revealed.
Speaking from his home in nearby Jaywick, her Brexit-voting brother Paul told MailOnline: ‘I have just seen it, and to be honest, I’m appalled. I don’t know where she is. I don’t want anything to do with her.’
The incident led to wide condemnation from MPs all across the political spectrum including Labour’s Yvette Cooper, now Home Secretary, who called it a ‘disgrace’ and ‘completely unacceptable and wrong’.
But Thomas Bowen, who films her X-rated video clips in the spare bedroom of her mother’s £260,000 house in Grays, told the BBC she flung the banana milkshake because she ‘just felt like it’.
The self-described ‘petite blonde pocket rocket’ said: ‘He doesn’t stand for me. He doesn’t represent anything I believe in, or any of the people around here. He doesn’t represent us, he’s not from here.’
Farage went on to win the Clacton seat with a majority of almost 8,000, beating incumbent Tory Giles Waitling.
Reacting to the incident, the Reform UK leader told ITV: ‘I don’t know what was thrown at me but it hit me in the face fair and square. Quite frightening.’
Farage later said he kept having the dairy drink thrown at him because he goes ‘out to meet the public and nobody else does’.
He added: ‘No one goes out and does the old-style street campaigning the way that I do, and this is the risk that goes with it.’
Since the latest flying milkshake incident, the Reform leader has boldly incorporated the drink into his brand.
Just hours after Thomas Bowen drenched him with one, Farage bought a round of banana milkshakes for the photographers to make light of the situation.
He even posed with a McDonald’s milkshake for a social media video, adding the caption: ‘My milkshake brings all the people to the rally.’
It is not the first time Farage has been targeted by a flying beverage.
Last month, 28-year-old Josh Greally admitted throwing a coffee cup and another item at Mr Farage as he campaigned on his battle bus in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on June 11.
Greally, of Damsbrook Drive, Clowne, Derbyshire, appeared before a district judge at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court, where he pleaded guilty to a public order offence.
He will be sentenced on August 28 at the same court.
During a walkabout in Newcastle in May 2019, Farage, who was the Brexit Party leader at the time, had a milkshake thrown over him by a man who claimed it was a ‘right of protest’.
Paul Crowther, 32, hurled his £5.25 salted caramel and banana drink at Farage and was subsequently arrested and charged with common assault.
As a result, the married man was sacked from his job as a technical advisor at Sky.
North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court ordered Crowther to carry out 150 hours of community service as well as paying £350 in compensation.
‘Milkshaking’ – the act of dousing public figures in milkshake – was officially recognised by Collins Dictionary the same year.
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