Oxford student who stabbed boyfriend is spared jail

She was very lucky to escape jail, but I don't think sending her to jail would had been the right thing to do. I said this before, but I believe we punish people with jail too much for small crimes that likely they will not do again.

She can be punished in other ways, I believe more community style punishments would be more fitting as well as any help they need to stop taking drugs and knifing people in fits of rage or madness.

That said, it's very easy to say, because shes rich, a women, smart and all that, she got away with it, but... that's not always the case.

Here is a list of news stories of men doing the same crime but didn't get jail.


https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...d_student_lavinia_woodward_who_judge/dnhmi33/

It's outrageous really. If the sexes were switched and it was a 24 year old man who stabbed his tinder date in the leg it would almost certainly result in him going to jail.

Here's a man who stabbed his girlfriend with a 6 inch knife because he was jealous that she was talking to another man and received a suspended sentence

Here's a man who stabbed his girlfriend and not only received a suspended sentence but was given the advice of buying her some flowers to make up for it

And for a taste of what other things get suspended sentences:

Here's a man who punched his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and received a suspended sentence

Here's a man who repeatedly beat his girlfriend and once strangled her until she passed out and received a suspended sentence

Here's a man with a history of domestic violence who beat his sister unconscious and broke her nose because he was angry and jealous that his girlfriend had received texts from an ex and who received a suspended sentence

Where was your outrage for these?

There is a class issue here as well, if she wasn't on the path to being a surgeon and was a 24 year old office worker or supermarket stacker she would have gone down as well.

Read this before you embarrass yourself further
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I find it rather interesting with all the shouting from both sides (right/wrongs sentence) no one is saying much about the injury to his leg, or did I miss that part?
 
VincentHanna said:
Going out in public carrying a knife is entirely different to picking up one in your house in a drug/alcohol fuelled rage and doing some minor damage to somebody's hand.
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Yes, but that's not what happened. She punched him, threw things at him and stabbed him in the leg with a bread knife, i.e. a large knife. She did minor damage to her own hand, most likely because she stabbed him with enough force to cause her to lose her grip on the handle of the knife so her hand slid onto the blade a little.

I think that attacking someone with a knife is worse than possessing a knife without attacking anyone with it, not better. Worse again when it's part of domestic violence and worse again when it's part of a sustained assault.

But as long as the sentencing isn't simple sexism (and it isn't, since there are examples of men who have done similar things and recieved similar sentences), that's my main concern dealt with.
 
IronWarrior said:
She was very lucky to escape jail, but I don't think sending her to jail would had been the right thing to do.
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Sending her to jail won't accomplish much in respect to her - once back out she is likely to be the same person, maybe even worse, and likely to behave the same again. I'm not sure there is even much that can be done for someone like this unless they change for themselves.
 
Dalandius said:
I find it rather interesting with all the shouting from both sides (right/wrongs sentence) no one is saying much about the injury to his leg, or did I miss that part?
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From the guardian in May:

Her ex-partner, a Cambridge University student whom she met on the dating app Tinder, did not need hospital treatment. His fingers were steri-stripped and his 1cm leg wound required stitches which were inserted at the scene.
 
lol 1cm wound, basically she poked him not stabbed him then.

I'm guessing this was more a stabbing the air/close to him threateningly and having poor aim than a dedicated attempt to stab him.
 
On the scale of knife crime she barely registered.
If she wasn't some middle class Oxford hopeful this wouldn't even blip on a news radar.
Yes she has issues that daddy can probably pay to have fixed but she isn't worthy of wasting tax money banging her up for 6 months.
Maybe when she's stabbing school kids in a chicken shop in Brixton she should do some time.
This media attention has probably shamed her so much her life is wrecked anyway. Forever known as the psycho stabby little blonde.
 
jsmoke said:
why did bf call cops, not a bit sissy of him.
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It's attitudes like this that perpetuate domestic violence against men as they are worried about being laughed it if they report it. He was absolutely right to call the police.
 
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