Woman lost a kidney in street stabbing attack
Teenager is locked up for eight years
A woman suffered life threatening injuries when she and a friend were both stabbed by a teenage girl in Scarborough. Leeds Crown Court heard the incident happened when the female complainants saw 18-yearold Ciara Murphy who was with a drug dealer they knew close to Blenheim Terrace on August 14 last year.
Nick Adlington, prosecuting, told the court Murphy described having travelled to Scarborough from the Midlands with her boyfriend thinking they were having a holiday – only to discover that he was involved in supplying Class A drugs.
She accepted she had then “had been roped into his drug trade wrapping deals for him” and had met the other dealer through him.
A witness said that she had heard one of the victims accuse Murphy of robbing her phone before grabbing the teenager by the hair.
Murphy was then seen apparently striking blows at one the victims while holding something metallic in her hand.
When Murphy walked away, the victim had an injury above her eyebrow and she later claimed to have taken out a knife to defend herself.
She claimed to a police inspector later “both [the victims] came at me. It all happened so fast they attacked me first.”
The victim was rushed to hospital unresponsive with a stab wound in her abdomen which had lacerated her left kidney.
She had to have massive blood transfusions and the kidney was removed to save her life.
She also had another wound to her head and body.
Her friend also had a stab wound to her abdomen and two on her arm. She was in hospital four days.
Taryn Turner representing Murphy said she was genuinely remorseful for what she had done.
When she found her holiday “not panning out as she expected” and instead her boyfriend was mixing with a drug crowd in Scarborough she did not know what to do.
Murphy, 19, of Watling Street, Walsall, admitted wounding with intent and unlawful wounding.
The teenager was sent to a young offender institution for eight years.