HATFIELD WOMAN JAILED FOR BRANDISHING ZOMBIE KNIFE AT SCHOOLBOY
A mum-of-four who pulled a zombie knife on a schoolboy in a shop and asked him if he wanted to go outside and “play with her little friend” has been jailed.Sarah Cherowbrier had been buying vodka at a shop in Hatfield, Doncaster, at around 8.15am on January 17 last year when schoolchildren were queuing behind her.
The 37-year-old was paying for her vodka when she knocked over some cans of lager and asked a 16-year-old boy if he would pick them up and put them back for her, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Laura Marshall told the court that despite originally saying no, the boy agreed to do so when Cherowbrier offered him £2.72 in cash.
However, when she put her hand back into her pocket, she pulled out what was described as a “zombie knife” and held it approximately 30cm from the teenager’s stomach.
She was then heard to say: “Do you want to go outside and play with my little friend?” Ms Marshall said the prosecution could not say that was a direct threat but that was how Cherowbrier’s victim interpreted it.
Cherowbrier then put the knife back in her pocket and the boy told school staff members about the ordeal and the police were called.
The Recorder Simon Eckersley told Cherowbrier that knife crime was a “blight on society” and added: “This was a schoolboy in a shop who had done nothing wrong.
Your actions shocked and scared him.” Cherowbrier, of High Street, Hatfield, admitted possession of a knife in a public place and was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
