PARANOID MONKEY DUST USER PUNCHED AND STABBED MAN
Cancer patient knifed in the body and leg
A WOMAN high on monkey dust repeatedly stabbed a cancer patient during a terrifying attack in his own home.
Mary Stokes punched the man as he sat on the sofa, before holding a knife to his head and making threats to kill.
She then sliced his ear and knifed him twice in the body and once in the leg before fleeing from Oldfield Street, Fenton, on July 29.
Now Stokes has been jailed for 32 months at Stoke-on-trent Crown Court.
Prosecutor David Bennett said an argument had broken out as a paranoid Stokes believed her phone had been hacked.
Mr Bennett said: “She believed the man was involved. She tried to check his devices.
“She put a knife down on the table. The man picked it up and returned it to the table.
“She refused to return his mobile. She had also taken his partner’s mobile and left it at her home.
“The partner went to bed. The man asked for his phone back. Stokes refused to return it. The more he asked for it the angrier she seemed to become. She spun the knife around in her hand. She said, ‘Do you take me for a d***head. I am no fool’.
“She stood up and punched the man in the face. He was sitting on the sofa. She got on top of him, holding the knife against his head. She said, ‘I will kill you, I will stab you up’.
“She moved the blade towards his ear causing a small cut. She ran the knife against the left side of his body and stabbed him twice. He raised his leg to protect himself. She stabbed him in the leg.
“As he tried to move past her towards the stairs she tried to stab him again. He went upstairs. His partner shouted out the window and asked workmen to call an ambulance. Stokes left the address.”
The court heard the man was left with a cut to his head, his ear and two puncture wounds under his left arm which were closed with stitches.
“The wound to his leg under his knee also needed stitches. The knife was found in a bin.
Stokes, of Oldfield Street, Fenton, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Hamish Noble, mitigating, said Stokes has had a difficult life and has misused drugs. In a letter she said she was sorry for her actions and thought she had been using crack cocaine but it was monkey dust.
Mr Noble said: “She formed a paranoia, a thought, that somebody hacked her phone. She is sorry for what she did.” He added Stokes was unaware the victim had cancer.
Recorder Julian Taylor said: “This is a very serious offence. You got in a paranoid state. I agree you did not know he had cancer. You picked up the knife. You got in an argument and stabbed him.
“He had to have quite a number of stitches. You could have caused even more serious injury or death. You are fortunate you are not here on a more serious charge.”
The judge made Stokes the subject of a restraining order which prevents her contacting her victim and his partner until further order.