Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, has pleaded guilty to assault by beating and criminal damage after she threw a milkshake over Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Mr Farage was outside the Moon and Starfish Wetherspoon pub in Clacton.
Victoria Thomas Bowen had originally denied the charges and was due to go on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday but changed her pleas to guilty before proceedings began.
Ms Thomas has been granted unconditional bail, with her sentencing hearing set for the morning of 16th December.
Nigel Farage posted a video to X containing the following statement:
So it's the 4th June, 2 hours after I've announced my candidacy for the Clacton constituency. A young woman rushes out of the crowd and chucks a milkshake in my face. Well, I'm pleased it was only a milkshake. We go to Westminster Magistrates Court this morning. Huge circus.
And right at the last minute, she pleads guilty. Well, sentencing will take place on the 16th December. But just think of the vast amount of public money and time that's been wasted in taking this all the way to the magistrate's court when at any point in the intervening period, she could have plead guilty, but chose not to. Now she is on OnlyFans and therefore makes money out of any publicity that she gets. Not only are actions like this damaging to our democracy is it any wonder that Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak barely met a voter in the whole of the election campaign.
But frankly, she's taken the mickey out of the whole system. It's not for me to say what sentence she gets, but she'll deserve it, whatever it is.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1848373812435284313
