An Oxford University student who stabbed her boyfriend with a bread knife may not go to jail because it could damage her prospects of a medical career, a court has heard.
Aspiring heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward, 24, punched and stabbed her boyfriend during an alcohol-and-drug-fuelled row at Christ Church College. She admitted unlawfully wounding the Cambridge University student, who she met on the dating app Tinder.
Judge Ian Pringle QC, sitting at Oxford crown court, said he would take an ”exceptional" course and defer sentence for four months, hinting that Woodward will not be jailed because of her talent. ”It seems to me that if this was a one-off, a complete one-off, to prevent this extraordinary able young lady from not following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes to would be a sentence which would be too severe," he said.
Woodward stabbed her boyfriend in the leg after punching him in the face. After stabbing him she threw a laptop, glass and jam jar at him.
Yet we can't damage her career....
More info for the people trying to take her side.....
Prosecutor Cathy Olliver said Woodward met her ex-boyfriend on Tinder.
The pair had a row, and when he threatened to call Woodward's mother, his then-girlfriend punched him before picking up a bread knife and stabbing him in the leg.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/16/oxford-student-spared-jail-extraordinary-talent/