A MOTHER has slammed the “scumbag” thugs who kicked her teenage daughter and held a knife to her throat.

The 17-year-old girl was pushed to the floor and kicked in the head by a woman in what her mother described as a “random attack” in Queen Street, Colchester.

The mother took to social media to appeal for witnesses and warn others following the attack.

In her plea, she reported the female assailant was accompanied by a man, wearing a chequered shirt, who pulled a knife from his jeans and held it to her daughter's throat.

She said the attack, which unfolded shortly before midnight near a town centre bar, also encompassed a separate assault on a close friend of the victim.

She said: “For no reason some absolutely disgusting scumbag woman decides to do this to her for absolutely no reason at all.

“All she was trying to do was walk away and the man she was with who was wearing a chequered shirt pulled out a knife from the back of his jeans and held it to her throat.

“Her friend she was with got grabbed by the face by this woman.

“She actually had my daughter on the floor kicking her in the head and at one point my daughter actually passed out.”

The mother said she had been left “livid” at those who had targeted her teenage daughter and shared pictures of the injury to her face.

She added: “Whoever you are police are looking for you.

“I hope you are proud of yourself whoever you are.

“Assaulting a minor, how big of you.”

An Essex Police spokeswoman said a woman had been charged following reports of an assault in Queen Street, Colchester.

She said: “We received reports that a teenage girl had been injured near Silk Road at 11.50pm on Tuesday.

“A woman was arrested."

Natasha Tiller, 22, of Holt Drive, Colchester, has been charged with assault by beating and will appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on July 27.