Woman in savage stabbing frenzy on boyfriend and pal at Leeds flat
A woman repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend and slashed his friend who tried to intervene during a drunken argument.
Zivile Vilcinskaite later claimed she had little recollection of the savage assaults owing to the amount of alcohol she had downed, Leeds Crown Court was told.
The Lithuanian was given a suspended sentence this week, after the judge said he was “persuaded just” not to lock her up due to her lack of previous convictions.
The court heard that an ambulance was called to Wesley Street in Beeston on the evening of July 15 last year to reports that two men had been attacked.
When the emergency services arrived, paramedics tended to the two men while police broke down the door to the flat. Vilcinskaite, 41, was arrested and a blue-handled knife was recovered.
It was heard that she had got into an argument with her partner then launched at him with the knife, stabbing him five times to his upper body and his hand.
The other male had tried to intervene and received a stab wound to his arm accidentally, he told police.
Vilcinskaite has no previous convictions and admitted two counts of Section 20 GBH without intent.
Prosecutor Kristina Goodwin said neither victim wished to provide police with a statement.
Mitigating, Michael Walsh said Vilcinskaite’s best mitigation was her early guilty pleas, her lack of previous convictions and that she had been on an electronic tag curfew for a lengthy period of time.
Judge Simon Batiste said that due to the victims’ lack of co-operation the “circumstances are a little difficult ascertain”.
He added: “It’s clear all three of you were heavily in drink.”
He gave Vilcinskaite, of Cottingley Drive, Beeston, a 24-month sentence, suspended for 24 months - the maximum sentence that can be suspended.
He ordered her to complete 30 rehabilitation days, 130 hours of unpaid work and an alcohol-abstention monitoring requirement for 120 days.
This means she will be fitted with an ankle tag that can detect even the tiniest amount of alcohol being absorbed into her bloodstream.