Bank worker who left boyfriend ‘covered in blood’ after knifing him twice on night out avoids jail as she’s now pregnant
A PREGNANT bank worker who left her boyfriend “covered in blood” after twice stabbing him on a night out has avoided jail.
Kimberley Blyth left Alan Kellett convinced she would kill him after attacking him during a row.
She grabbed a blade from a knife block in their kitchen at home in Boldon, South Tyneside, and slashed at his arm.
As Alan desperately tried to protect himself, he was stabbed again.
Blyth swerved a prison sentence after the court was told she is now pregnant with someone else’s child.
She was instead handed a 21 month sentence suspended for two years, 150 hours unpaid work and slapped with a five-year restraining order.
Recorder Brian Whitehead said: “If I was to imprison you now there is no guarantee you would be put in a mother and baby unit and it could be the baby would be taken into care and that can’t be right.”
Newcastle Crown Court heard how the couple had met on Facebook but the relationship quickly turned “toxic”.
On April 3, they went out drinking in Boldon before returning home where an argument erupted.
After he was stabbed, Alan phoned his mum and told her: “Please come, she has stabbed me twice.
“I’m bleeding I’ve never lost this much blood, it has gone through a main artery.”
Police arrived at the house and found the bricklayer “covered in blood”.
In a victim impact statement, Alan said: “At the time of the assault I was stabbed in the left arm to defend myself had I not put my arm up I would probably have been stabbed in the chest and killed.
“I believe that Blyth has tried to kill me that night.”
He also told how he suffers from permanent nerve damage, which has affected his job, and suffers from pain at night.
Alan added: “I also have a permanent scar to my left arm where I was stabbed and every time I see this it brings it all back.”
Blyth admitted wounding but claimed she picked up the knife in self defence.