Woman who stabbed boyfriend ‘snapped’

A MAN has been jailed for five years after he attacked a woman in her home in Huddersfield.

Leeds Crown Court heard Joseph Wilson knew the victim and went in after her boyfriend and his friend had gone to an off-licence leaving the front door unlocked.

He told her he was going to have sex with her and tried to drag her upstairs, said David Hall, prosecuting.

When she resisted, he hit her in the face and pinned her down on the floor and ripped her clothes before he sexually assaulted her with his fingers.

He then tried to undo his belt and she feared she was going to be raped but he calmed down and sat her on the sofa.

However, when her boyfriend returned and began knocking on the door, Wilson produced a knife, pushed her to the floor and told her to stay down. When she screamed loudly he fled through another door.

He gave himself up to police the next day and said he had been very drunk.

Chloe Hudson, representing him, said he knew he had done something wrong and was extremely sorry.

Wilson, 29 of Blacker Lane, Netherton, admitted sexual and common assault. Judge Guy Kearl QC said the victim now felt unsafe in her own home. was being arrested and demanded they let her go.

He was taken outside and reluctantly showed the officer the stab wound at the top of his chest. He was taken to hospital where he was heard on a mobile phone saying he had been “stabbed for nothing”.

He was suspected of having a punctured lung but refused to co-operate with the police.

Wayte said the relationship between them had been volatile and was coming to an end and she was intending to move her property out of his address when they argued.

She said when he threw her phone at the television she had got the knife to show him “enough was enough”.

Michael Sisson-Pell, representing Wayte, said she had been in the relationship for more than four years but had only moved in with Mr Woodhead for a short period when she could not pay her rent.

She found him controlling and wanted to leave. She had “snapped” when he broke her phone and had picked up the knife but had not intended to cause significant injury. She reported what she had done to the police herself.

Mr Sisson-Pell said she had shown genuine remorse and had been diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having a mental disorder which made her vulnerable.

Wayte, 34, of Union Street, Slaithwaite, admitted unlawful wounding and was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for two years with 20 rehabilitation activity days.

Judge Guy Kearl QC said it appeared she was on the verge of moving out when she stabbed the complainant. It was accepted she suffered from an anxiety, panic and depression disorder and in the unusual circumstances he was prepared to suspend the sentence.