My footballer brother head-butted and bit me for having a baby
THE sister of a Premier League footballer told a jury how he head-butted her six times before her lover then stabbed him in the legs in revenge.
Cara Davenport, 28, who was pregnant at the time, accused her brother Calum of calling her a “whore” before attacking her and biting her face.
A jury heard how former West Ham defender Davenport, 27, attacked her after he and their father Curtis barged into her home at 2am.
They wanted to confront her about her boyfriend but became abusive when they realised she was pregnant, it is alleged.
Her four-year-old son Calum Junior shouted: “Get off my mummy”, Luton Crown Court was told.
Ms Davenport’s boyfriend Worrell Whitehurst, 25, later attacked the footballer at his mother’s home nearby.
The player was rushed to intensive care and at one point it was thought his life was in danger.
Davenport and his father were drunk when they burst into her Bedford home last August, the court heard.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, Ms Davenport told the jury: “It pretty much deteriorated from them calling me a whore. He basically said, ‘You’ve gone downhill, look at the state of you’.
“He said I was a form of cancer because I was pregnant by a fourth man.” She accused her father of racial abuse: “He shouted it quite a few times. Calum Junior is mixed race and was upstairs.”
She told the court: “Me and Calum started hitting each other, then they pushed me onto the stairs.
“He put his hand around my throat, he head-butted me quite a few times but I managed to move my head to an angle so I could just take it on one side. He wasn’t moving his head back very far, he was head-butting me from quite close, four, five, six times.
“He bit me on my face. I said, ‘Dad, get him off me’ and he said, ‘You don’t want our help, you don’t need our help’. I thought my dad was going to pull him off me but he patted my brother on the back and said, ‘I think she’s had enough now, boy’.”
Davenport, of Bedford, denies actual bodily harm. Whitehurst has admitted grievous bodily harm and will be sentenced later. The trial continues.