MOTHER JAILED FOR VIOLENT DOMESTIC ATTACKS WITH DRILL AND CARVING FORK
A raging mother took a cordless drill to her partner's head and stabbed him with a carving knife leaving him with a punctured lung.Leanne Harvey, 47, also smashed a glass pan lid over her boyfriend's head and stabbed him in the hand with a fish knife.
During an argument on December 6, 2022, Harvey picked up a fish fork, and stabbed her partner to the back of his hand.
Peter Sabiston, prosecuting, said that she then "tried to drill a hole in the back of his head." The victim was bleeding but "did not want to get his partner into trouble" meaning the prosecution have no further details about the severity of the injuries, and the level of force used with the power tool.
Almost a year later, on November 21, 2023, they had an argument whilst in bed.
Harvey had got her partner a can of cider before she accused him of kissing someone else.
She then made threats to hurt his mother and other members of his family.
When they were in the kitchen, she took a glass pan lid and struck him to the head with it, the lid shattered.
The man thought the attack was over, and turned his back to make some toast.
But Harvey stabbed him in the chest with a carving fork, leaving him with a punctured lung, and bleeding heavily from two other puncture wounds.
Harvey called an ambulance to the family's home.
When he was being treated in hospital, the victim told medics about the attack with the drill the year before.
The court heard that he has since "withdrawn his support for the prosecution." When police arrived, Harvey told them that she "had hit" her partner.
She later pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
In January 2021, she was fined for assaulting an emergency worker.
She appeared in court via video link from Low Newton prison.
She was jailed for 47 months, less the eight months she has spent on remand, to serve half of the sentence before being released on licence.
The judge described her actions as very unpleasant, causing tremendous fear and shock, and involved a series of violent acts driven by rage amid a context of alcohol and drug abuse.
