Woman, 22, says bouncer punched her so hard she burst blood vessel in her eye

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A CLUBBER has claimed a bouncer punched her so hard in the face she burst a blood vessel in her eye.

Abbey Jackson, 22, has said bouncers at a Manchester nightclub let two people in without showing their vaccine passports.

Abbey Jackson says she was hit so had by a bouncer outside a club in Manchester she burst a blood vessel in her eyeCredit: Deadline

Abbey claims she and two friends she was with were all injured by an 'aggressive' bouncer — Abbey claims she and two friends she was with were all injured by an ‘aggressive’ bouncerCredit: Deadline

A friend of Jackson’s then confronted the security outside 42nd Street nightclub on Wednesday night when they were out celebrating a birthday.

Jackson and both her pals, Leon Parsons, 23, and Kieran Bendix, 28, were all allegedly hurt by a male bouncer after he is said to have become “aggressive”.

Jackson claims she was also punched in the eye by him.

Greater Manchester Police have confirmed officers are investigating the allegations if assault but say no arrests have been made.

The “heavyset” bouncer at the club on Bootle Street, Manchester, is also accused of choking Parsons and hitting him so hard he had a lump on his head.

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Jackson has also claimed her friend attempted to record some of the incident but had his phone taken away by the bouncer and “smashed beyond use”.

Jackson, from Hereford, Herefordshire, said: “We tried to reason with them but the bouncer kept being aggressive and it turned into him following my friend, shoving him and yelling at him.

“This bouncer was over 6ft and heavyset mind you, twice the size of me and my friends.

“When we tried to push him away he started on us and started shoving us.

“I can’t remember the exact sequence of events because it all happened so fast but he ended up whacking my friend across the face, choking my other friend and hitting him so hard he has a lump on the back of his head.

“He punched me in the face so hard I thought I was going to pass out, later I found out he popped a blood vessel in my eye.’

She also warned people about the 42 nightclub in a Facebook post.

“Last night me and some friends went to 42s as it was two of our birthdays,” she said.

“We queued up and were asked the usual ‘tickets, NHS pass’ etc and as we were finding it on our phones, two lads pushed in front of us and were let in without showing their NHS pass.

“So my friend asked why this was. Although a little confrontational, it was nothing extreme but one of the bouncers then gave him attitude and refused him entry, and refused me and the other person entry just by association.

“It then got completely out of control after the bouncer started squaring up to my friend and pushing him around and following him across the street.

“When me and my other friend tried to intervene, we were met with the same treatment.

“What followed was this one bouncer constantly physically assaulting us all, including marking my friend’s face, choking my other friend and banging his head so hard he got a lump, and full on punching me in the eye causing me to bleed, gain a black eye and cause a subconjunctival haemorrhage.

“Before this, 42s was my favourite club in Manchester but after being verbally and physically assaulted on my birthday by a bouncer I will no longer be returning.”

Members of the Facebook group were left shocked by the allegations and some described the bouncers at the nightclub as “vile”.

One member wrote: “The bouncers at 42s are vile, I hope you’re okay!

“I went to stand outside for five minutes with a friend (they were stood staring at us for the whole five minutes) and then they wouldn’t let us back in to get my things out of the cloakroom.

“When I tried to walk in, a bouncer pushed me over and all the rest of the bouncers just stood and laughed.”

Another added: “Absolutely disgusting, he needs catching. I’m sorry guys. I wish you a speedy recovery. The club should tell you his name.”

One shocked clubber said: “The bouncers here are awful. One had a go at me for waiting for my friends to walk down the stairs before I left.

“We were the only people on the stairs and he screamed at me for just waiting for them to get to the bottom, he was insane.”

And another posted: “Oh my god I hope you’re okay, the bouncers at 42s are vile.”

Greater Manchester Police said in a statement: “Police were notified at 12.15pm on Thursday, 23 December to report of an assault on Bootle Street, Manchester, the previous day.

“The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have been made.”

The Sun Online has contacted the 42nd nightclub for comment.