A 13-year-old girl whose head 'was' like a football' was kicked during a brutal attack by four girls in Morecambe came close to the suffering of permanent brain damage, her mother said.
The police arrested a 12-year-old girl on suspicion of mistreatment after the attack on Olivia Allan, who rose demolished teeth and injuries on her back and neck after she was set up while she walked home from school.
Only the intervention of a foreign national who came her help saved Olivia from more serious injury, said that her mother Keighley Marie, who was told by a doctor that blows further to the head, could cause permanent damage.
The incident took place on Monday at Old Moss Lane, a sparsely populated road in the city of Lancashire Resort that connects two residential areas.
Images of the attack that circulated on social media showed one perpetrator 'rain magazines' to Olivia's face after she clambered on her back, said Keighley, who claimed that the attack was premeditated.
Olivia, who also remained with bruises and footprints on her legs, spent three nights in the hospital in the aftermath of the attack.
“It is the worst nightmare of every parent,” said Keighley, a mental health nurse. 'I was working in Lancaster when I received a phone call about what had happened and it was clear school time, so there was traffic and I was in an absolute razory trying to reach her.
“It just felt like it was going forever. The Consultant in A&E said that if she had taken even more strokes, she could have been damaged permanent brain. '
Olivia Allan suffered swelling, scars and broken teeth after she was attacked by four girls in Morecambe, Lancashire. She also suffered injuries on her back, neck and legs
Olivia was made safe by Medici after a passerby intervened and called emergency services. “It is the worst nightmare of every parent,” said her mother Keighley Marie, a mental health nurse
Olivia, who also remained with bruises and footprints on her legs, spent three nights in the hospital in the aftermath of the attack. “It could have been fatal,” said Keighley
She added that the incident, which happened in the vicinity of Trimpell Sports and Social Club, were involved four girls waiting for Olivia and “kicked her head like a football, stamped her face and put a tooth through her lip.”
Keighley said she thanked the stranger who came to Olivia's help while she walked her own child from school at home. After the interior, the woman got the most important perpetrator before contacting the emergency services and waiting with Olivia until the police arrived.
“It could have been fatal,” said Keighley. “She saved her life.
“She walked with her daughter from Westgate and she could see in the distance that there had been an argument.”
It is understanding that the girls go to different schools in the city.
“Olivia recovers physically, but what she has experienced mentally with the trauma will be a much longer process,” Keighley added.
'She has been referred to child and adolescent mental health care. The trauma Olivia has continued and the trauma that I and her father have experienced is terrible.
'I had to be prescribed sleeping tablets, I am signed and I am not going outside. I also have two other children to try to take care of. It just feels like an injustice. '
A spokesperson for the Lancashire police said: 'We received a report from an attack on Moss Lane, Morecambe, around 3.40 pm on March 24, 2025. A teenage girl sustained injuries and was taken to the hospital for treatment. Since then she has been fired.
'Questions are going on and a 12-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of abuse. Anyone with information or images is asked to contact us on 101 stating LOG 0928 of 24 March. '
