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A HEARTBROKEN man stabbed his best friend in the stomach after
breaking up with his girlfriend.
John Withers had been homeless since
the split but was given shelter by Trevor Phillips, a former work colleague.
But Withers got drunk after an unexpected meeting with his ex-partner
and returned to Mr Phillips’ house in the village of Wickhamford, near Evesham,
in “a zombie state”, said Alex Warren, prosecuting.
A HEARTBROKEN man stabbed his best friend in the stomach after
breaking up with his girlfriend.
John Withers had been homeless since
the split but was given shelter by Trevor Phillips, a former work colleague.
But Withers got drunk after an unexpected meeting with his ex-partner
and returned to Mr Phillips’ house in the village of Wickhamford, near Evesham,
in “a zombie state”, said Alex Warren, prosecuting.
He stuck the kitchen
knife four inches into Mr Phillips’ stomach in an unprovoked attack.
When police arrived, Withers was drinking a can of beer and the victim
still had the blade protruding from his body, Worcester Crown Court heard.
Withers, aged 44, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to unlawful
wounding and was jailed for 27 months.
Judge Richard Rundell said an
inch or two either way and Withers could have been facing a murder charge.
He accepted a defence submission that the attack was “inexplicable” and
said Withers might have mental health issues.
Mr Phillips, who lived
with his wife and step daughter, had known the defendant for 15 years and took
pity on him when he became homeless at the end of his romance, said Mr Warren.
But on June 26 Withers was spoken to by Mr Phillips about being drunk
and an argument blew up.
Later that evening Withers returned to the
address. The victim was making coffee when he felt the knife blow.
The
blade did not enter the abdominal cavity and he recovered after an operation.
Francis Laird, defending, said Withers had gone through a stressful
break-up and was “totally heartbroken”.
He was taking anti-depressants
when he met his ex by accident in a pub and began drinking heavily.
Mr
Laird said: “He became overwhelmed and did something quite inexplicable. He is
deeply sorry for what he did. It may have been out of his control.”
An eight-year-old girl pleaded for
her mum to stop brandishing a knife at her neighbours after the woman threatened
to stab them.
An eight-year-old girl pleaded for her mum to stop brandishing a knife at her neighbours after the womanthreatened to stab them.
Joanne Ireson wielded the kitchen knife outside her home in Cardigan Road, East Reading, at about 8pm on Tuesday, June 16.
The fracas took place after Ireson’s daughter snuck off to play outside on her own and she shouted at her to come back.
But Ireson’s concerned neighbours got “the wrong end of the stick” and called police – causing her to threaten them with the blade.
At Reading Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, August 25, Ireson – of previously good character – admitted one count of possessing the eight-inch knife in a public place and one of using violence and/or threatening behaviour towards neighbour Daniel Thiemert.
PORT CHESTER – Toxicology results on Chris Corna released this week do not change the Westchester medical examiner’s conclusion that the popular Colorado restaurateur’s death was a suicide, but police are not closing their investigation.
The car Chris Corna of Steamboat Springs was driving very early May 18 crashed into a bridge abutment after he slit his throat, the medical examiner said. A bloodied kitchen knife was found in the car. Either trauma was enough to kill him, Medical Examiner Millard Hyland said at that time.
He made the comments publically at a family dinner in a local restaurant
A woman who stabbed her boyfriend after his repeated insulting remarks about her weight at a family dinner has been sentenced to two years in prison for the attack. The ruling took into account that she was emotionally disturbed by his comments and also that she stabbed him after mixing alcohol with anti-depressants.
It happened last year after the dinner in a local restaurant in Abrera, Barcelona province, where the victim is said to have publically told his girlfriend that she was too fat to run, and should stop eating as she was so fat and would have to find another man.
Last paragraph reads: “Lori Adams had Tylenol and traces of the antidepressant Citalopram [Celexa] in her system, according to the toxicology report. She also had a blood alcohol level of .24. Marshall’s blood alcohol level is unclear, officials said. The toxicologist found a .15 level in his liver but could not get a blood alcohol…