To avoid giving birth while incarcerated, a pregnant bank employee who stabbed her partner twice in a fit following a night out has been spared from jail time.
Alan Kellett was left ‘soaked in blood’ when 36-year-old Kimberley Blyth gave him two knife wounds to his arm, leading him to believe she was attempting to murder him.
One of the gaping injuries was described by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court as “pretty gruesome.”
The couple had met on Facebook around ten months prior, according to prosecutor Claire Anderson, but their relationship had become “toxic” after both of them reported violent incidents to the police.
According to Ms Anderson, the two had gone out drinking in Boldon, South Tyneside, on April 2, 2022, and then headed back home.
“There appears to have been an altercation in the kitchen shortly after midnight on April 3rd, and the defendant believed that she had been assaulted,” the statement continued.
She approached Alan Kellett after taking a knife from the knife block. He was stabbed after raising his left arm in self-defence.
According to testimony given in court, bricklayer Mr Kellett called his mother following the attack and begged her to come because she had stabbed him twice. I’m gushing blood; I’ve never lost so much, and it passed through an important artery.
According to Ms Anderson, Mr Kellett answered the door “covered in blood” when officers arrived at the house at around 2:10 a.m.
Blyth, a former bank employee from Hartlepool, County Durham, who has prior convictions, acknowledged injuring him because she thought he had attacked her and she had defended herself by attacking him with the knife.
Mr Kellett made the following declaration in his victim statement: “I felt she was going to kill me when I was stabbed in the left arm in April 2022.”
“I was stabbed in the left arm during the attack to defend myself. If I hadn’t raised my arm, I most likely would have been fatally stabbed in the chest.”
“I think Blyth attempted to kill me that evening.” I will always have nerve damage as a result of the injuries.
‘I work as a bricklayer, and having this permanent nerve damage has affected my ability to work. I have to take extended breaks to rest my arm and this does not go down too well with my employer. It takes me twice as long to do my job now.
This is yet another story where the glamour pictures bear no reality to the police mug shots, and the difference between her social media pictures and reality are almost laughable, and this creates a licence for all pregnant women to commit crimes.
It appears that being pregnant can now result in a suspended sentence for stabbing someone. If you commit a crime then you should do the time, unless, of course, it was self-defence, and even then it’s murky water.
Her pregnancy was, in my opinion, the primary issue. The infant would have been placed in foster care from the moment of birth; but, if both parents exhibit instability, there may be a safeguarding concern. This case has not seen justice served.
Another blow to the flawed legal system in Britain.
This was not a deterrent. Actions have consequences, and unless you’re prepared for those consequences then one should choose their actions very carefully. Putting this woman behind bars was the right thing to do, and there are far too many wimp judges out there.
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