Glamorous 24-Year-Old Beauty Queen Allegedly Assaults Woman with Stiletto Heel in Taxi Dispute Following Miss GB Finals

A BEAUTY queen who attacked another woman with a red stiletto heel while waiting in a taxi queue after a night out has been spared jail.

Taylor Gidley, 24 – who was crowned Miss 2024 – left her victim with a 2cm gash in her cheek after the attack in Preston, Lancashire.

Gidley had attended the Holcombe Harriers Hunt Ball at Owd Nells Tavern before setting upon the woman on October 24, 2024.

Preston Crown Court heard Gidley had screamed at her victim after she approached a man in the taxi queue and asked to share a cab.

She then used her right shoe to strike the woman in the face, sending her flying to the floor in a daze, before continuing to hit her, the court heard.

Her victim, who could not remember the attack when quizzed by cops, told how she “feels anxious when I go out” due to the scar on her face.

Gidley repeatedly sobbed in the dock as recorder Ben Lawrence sentenced her to nine months in jail, suspended for 12 months.

A week before the attack, Gidley had competed in the Miss GB national finals, where she eventually lost out to Miss Edinburgh Ava Morgan.

Prosecutor Mia Monahan told the court there was a shortage of taxis at the pub and the women had asked various people if they could share.

Witnesses told how Gidley then confronted another woman in the queue for cabs before striking her in the face with the stiletto.

One of the victim’s friends said she had complained of pain in her head and had been sick, the court heard.

She woke with a 2cm cut to her cheek and later went to hospital, with her injury found to be consistent with having been struck with a small object.

Gidley was identified through social media and arrested the following day.

She was released under but arrested again on December 15 after officers found the dress and stilettos from the attack at her home.

Gidley told officers she was acting in self defence and did not intend to cause an injury.

She later pleaded guilty to section 20 wounding at Preston Crown Court.

Joe Allman, defending, said there were a number of references which described Gidley as “kind, caring, empathetic and considerate”.

He said the incident was “entirely out of character”.

Her victim told the court: “I now have a scar on my face. I feel it is very noticeable and I am always self conscious.

“I feel anxious when I go out. It is not a normal thing to be hit in the face with a heel and it has taken a long time to process it.

“I don’t like to be around drunk people – it makes me question whether that is what they are all like.”

Sentencing, the judge said: “It seems like you were angered by her asking a male you knew whether they could share a taxi.

“Whatever the cause of your anger it was wholly unjustified, which I am assured you agree with and I have no doubt it was influenced by your consumption of alcohol.

“You had in your hand one of your stiletto heels and you hit her in her cheek with that stiletto.

“She fell to the floor in a daze or unconscious and her friend said you continued to hit her.”

However he accepted the incident was out of character and Gidley had not committed any offences before or since.

Alongside her suspended sentence, Gidley, of Forest Green, Padiham, was ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.

Throughout the hearing, Gidley sobbed in the dock, dressed in a white shirt and brown trousers.

She was crowned Miss Lancashire in June 2024 at the Crow Wood Hotel & Spa in Burnley.

The competition raises money for the A-sisterhood, which seeks to support, empower and protect women worldwide.