A
woman who got really upset with her boyfriend after she caught him
kissing another woman, has shown her anger in a most brutal manner.
Joylene Cunningham
The woman identified as Joylene Cunningham, went ahead to slash her
boyfriend, Sean Harman’s face from his mouth to his ear after seeing
him kissing and cuddling someone else.
She has however been arrested, tried and jailed for two and a half years.
Sean Harman required 18 stitches to his wound after the attack,
made by his girlfriend, Cunningham, with a razor blade or Stanley knife,
York Crown Court was told.
According to York Press, he took to the witness box to defend her,
saying he had been ‘winding her up’ during the incident, which happened
on Kings Staith one evening in June last year.
He said he had wrongly believed she had been having an affair.
“I was disgusting,” he said. “I was horrible. I was awful.
“I was angry with her. I thought she had been cheating on me in
my own bed. I wanted revenge on her. I wanted her to be sent down.”
He said he had been violent towards Cunningham previously and,
during the Kings Staith incident, Cunningham had hit him with her fist
but the cut must have been caused by a ring on her finger or a glass he
was holding.
Cunningham, 30, of Blossom Street, York, said that when she got to
the river, she saw him with another girl, kissing and cuddling. “I felt pretty upset,” she said. “I just stormed over and hit him.”
She said she punched him but denied having a blade in her hand, and
said the wound must have been caused by a ring on her finger, or the
glass he was holding.
But the Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC, who examined the
ring, said it was not sharp and he did not believe the pair’s claims.
Solicitor advocate Kevin Blount said in mitigation that Cunningham
had no previous conviction for violence, it had been an isolated
incident, there was nothing to suggest pre-meditation and there was
‘some degree of remorse.’ Judge Batty said the wound had been a ‘deep
laceration’ in places, running virtually from Mr Harman’s mouth to his
ear and causing a permanent scar.
He said that in sentencing, he gave Cunningham credit for a guilty plea to wounding with intent at an earlier hearing.
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