A construction worker accused of viciously beating a nurse in a Hell’s Kitchen bar — and then outrageously blaming it on his victim — today said that after he saw himself on TV in surveillance video released by cops, “I wanted to kill myself because she didn’t deserve that.
“I remember dancing with her. I remember being in the bathroom with her, and I remember her screaming,” said Mbarek Lafrem, 30, who allegedly attacked the woman in the bathroom of the Eighth Avenue bar Social after she turned down his invitation to dance.
“I wouldn’t want that to happen to my sisters,” Lafrem added In an emotional jailhouse interview on Rikers Island.
The Moroccan national, who faces charges of attempted murder, assault and attempted rape, said he was blind-drunk and barely remembers that night.
“I wasn’t myself. I was somebody else,” he said. “I’ve never acted like that before.
“I made a mistake. I have to pay for it. I’m in the hole.’’
After his bust, he tried to blame the attack on his victim, telling cops, “I was at the bar with the girl. I went into the bathroom, and she started yelling at me.
“She was coming toward me, so I grabbed her by the arm. She was trying to push me, so I punched her in the face twice and pushed her back into the stall. She fell into the stall and hit her head.”
Asked what he would now tell the woman, a pediatric nurse, Lefram replied from jail: “I’ll give her my life.
The woman required 50 stitches to close a laceration across her forehead, suffered a broken eye socket and nose, skull fractures and a busted jaw, according to court papers.
Lafrem said he had been drinking on an empty stomach after getting off work the night of the attack.