A 74-year-old grandmother attacked her 78-year-old husband with a knife at their home in Ashford, Kent.
Barbara Ellis drunk on gin at the time of the incident, told her husband Roderic, that she hated him before slashing him across the face with a knife, causing a seven-inch wound that required thirteen stitches.
When the police arrived at the home of the couple, Mrs Ellis was cleaning her husbands blood off of the carpet.
She should have been given an immediate jail sentence, set down in the guidelines, however, the judge gave her a 12-month sentence, suspended for a year and ordered her to attend an alcohol treatment programme.
Unbelievable, so what if she’s an old lady, she’s done the crime she should do the time!
Time and time again we listen to the excuse that it was because of the drink, so what is being done about it, absolutely nothing.
You can pick alcohol up for less money than a bag of chips, something needs to be done and fast.
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