Woman jailed after confessing to stabbing partner at station

A WOMAN walked into a police station and confessed “I stabbed my ex-partner earlier” – revealing an attack that left her victim with multiple stab wounds.

Amy Woolston, 22, entered Haverfordwest Police Station on the evening of 13 June and told officers she had stabbed her partner. She added: “He’s alright and he let me walk off.”

When police attended the victim’s home to check on his welfare, he initially wasn’t there but returned shortly after. Officers noted he was not under the influence of anything.

The victim had three stab or puncture marks on his back and one to his bicep. He told police that when he returned home from the shop, Woolston was “being a bit shifty”. When he asked if she was alright, she grabbed something from the window sill – either a knife or a shard of glass – and stabbed him.

He told officers he’d “had worse from her before” and said he wouldn’t support any prosecution. He also refused to attend hospital.

Prosecutor Tom Scapens told Swansea Crown Court that Woolston claimed she stabbed him after they had both taken acid together and she felt stab marks in her back.

Woolston, of Dartmouth Street in Milford Haven, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding. The court heard she now has 20 previous convictions from 10 court appearances, including several for battery and assaulting emergency workers.

Defence barrister Dyfed Thomas said: “She’s had a long-standing problem with her mental health. She was off her medication she was taking for her paranoid schizophrenia.”

Mr Thomas said the defendant was remorseful and was now taking her medication again, adding: “She’s still a young woman.”

Sentencing Woolston, Judge Geraint Walters said: “Whilst having an episode, no doubt, you stabbed your partner. Something he opted a rather blasé approach to. We need to sort out your problems. You taking a knife to somebody – you or somebody else – nobody knows what the outcome will be.”

He sentenced her to 12 months imprisonment. As she had already served the equivalent of a 12-month sentence, she was told she would be released imminently.

Judge Walters explained: “A licence condition for 12 months is going to be more helpful for you.”