Instinct kicked in when he grabbed my ponytail
MURDER ACCUSED SAYS SHE ONLY MEANT TO ‘PRICK’ PARTNER WITH CARVING KNIFE
AN accused woman stabbed her boyfriend to make him let go of her ponytail, a murder trial heard.
Their squabble began when Demi Harris, 21, told him to keep on his boxer shorts in a hot tub with other women nearby at a party.
She was briefly dragged fully clothed into the tub and responded by throwing chemical into the water and turning off the electricity supply at their home in Strathmore Close, Hucknall.
This annoyed Christopher Pearson, 39, who followed her into the semi-detached house, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
He suffered stab wounds and died in hospital on February 15.
When detained, Harris told police that he grabbed her hair during an argument on another night.
On that occasion, she bit him and he let go as he dragged her to the floor.
On the night he was stabbed, he held her by the ponytail, said Harris, who denies murder. She told police: “I think my instinct kicked in.” Harris said she was carrying a carving knife and wanted Mr Pearson to stop holding her hair.
She said she thought: “If I just prick him, he will get off, just like when I bit him.
“That was my intention – just a prick to give him a bit of a shock. I was saying ‘get off me.’”
She described the movement of the knife as “a quick down” and a police officer asked: “A jab, then?”
Harris went on: “A jab, yeah. I felt him release a little bit.
“He was saying ‘ow.’ I thought it was just because I pricked him. He was going ‘silly little cow, I will show you to do that to me.’ He said he would ‘do me black and blue.’
“Then he let me go and stumbled back. I heard him go ‘you have got me.’ He puts his hand on the wall, I saw blood.
“Obviously. I am panicking. I shouted downstairs for help.
“I am apologising to him. I didn’t mean to do it. He is saying ‘just come here.’”
When other party guests arrived upstairs, she claimed to have heard them say: “Get her.”
She added: “I said. ‘is he all right?’ They said. ‘no, he is not all right.’ I was sorry, I didn’t mean it to happen.”
The trial continues.