THUMB-BITE DELIVEROO RIDER GIVEN SUSPENDED SENTENCE

A food delivery driver who bit off a customer's thumb has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Jeniffer Rocha, 35, attacked Stephen Jenkinson in an argument over a Deliveroo pizza order in Aldershot, Hampshire, in December 2022.

She previously pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to causing grievous bodily harm.

Rocha was sentenced to a 16-month prison term, suspended for 18 months, at Salisbury Crown Court.

Mr Jenkinson's partner ordered a pizza from the food delivery app on 14 December 2022.

But Rocha arrived at the wrong location, down the street from the customer's home, prosecutors said.

When he went to get his food, he forgot his phone and a brief argument ensued about the delivery code number he needed to provide.

Mr Jenkinson said he was then bitten, as if he had "gone through a chainsaw".

"All I remember, I was shaking her helmet trying to get her off," the 36-year-old told the BBC.

"The force with which she must have been biting, she'd clean taken it off."

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