A woman who stabbed her teenage lover in the back with a pair of scissors while ‘blackout drunk’ has been jailed.
Abbie Lucas, 30, from Whitstable in Kent, downed several bottles of wine during a ‘three to four-day bender’ before attacking her 19-year-old ‘friend with benefits’ after he stormed out during a row.
When he returned to collect his belongings, Lucas used her long acrylic nails to scratch his neck before thrusting the scissors into his back as he bent down to pick up a shoe, leaving a 6cm ‘stab hole’.
The teenager was so badly injured that he had to be airlifted to King’s College Hospital in London.
Meanwhile, police found the 30-year-old thug hiding in the basement stairwell, where she claimed to be for her own safety.
She reportedly had glazed eyes, blood on her face, smelled of alcohol and was speaking incoherently.
The pair had only known each other for a few weeks and Lucas’s victim was staying with her in temporary housing.
She told police officers she had ‘blacked out’ because of her boozy session but while saying she could be a ‘nightmare’, claimed if she had stabbed him it would have been in self-defence.
Abbie Lucas, 30, (pictured) was jailed for one year today after being found guilty of wounding her 19-year-old ‘friend with benefits’
Her teenage lover was left with a 6cm ‘stab hole’ in his back when she stabbed him with a pair of scissors
She told police officers she had ‘blacked out’ because of her boozy session but while saying she could be a ‘nightmare’, claimed if she had stabbed him it would have been in self-defence
During her interview with police, Lucas said: ‘I love that boy. I don’t know what the f*** happened and I wish I did.
‘I just wish it never happened. The worst thing is I don’t remember it. That’s what’s so frustrating.’
The attack allegedly happened after the pair went out in Herne Bay and Margate on August 22.
The teenager said he was cooking when he heard his lover being ‘loud and abusive’ and ‘screaming and shouting’ in a communal hallway.
When he went to investigate, Lucas grabbed his neck and pulled his hair.
He told the court he was not drunk but had smoked ‘a joint or two’ throughout the day.
He said he lashed out in self-defence using his hand, doing ‘just enough to get her off me’.
Yet when he returned to pick up some clothes, Lucas ‘lunged’ with the scissors and stabbed his back.
The attack allegedly happened after the pair went out in Herne Bay and Margate on August 22
During her trial in September, prosecutor Tom Worden told the jury her attack had ‘no justification’
He said: ‘I didn’t know [that I had been stabbed] – I thought I had been punched – until I went into the other room.
‘I genuinely thought I had been punched. It was not even that hard, that’s what’s crazy. I just walked off with my belongings and carried on.’
It was only when one of his friends started screaming that he realised he had been stabbed, he said.
The bloody scissors were found the following day in a bush outside Lucas’s home.
During her trial in September, prosecutor Tom Worden told the jury her attack had ‘no justification’.
He said: ‘This was an unprovoked attack, stabbing someone in the back.
‘Even if she were acting in self-defence, there can be no justification for stabbing [the victim] in the back causing him such a significant wound, and the force she used went well beyond anything that might be considered reasonable in the circumstances of this case.’
She was sentenced to a year in prison at her sentencing today at Canterbury Crown Court (pictured)
After he was stabbed, the 19-year-old, who has since turned 20, said he went into a friend’s flat in the same development.
He said Lucas banged on the door and said: ‘You’re f***ed’.
During cross examination, the victim denied the suggestion Lucas had stabbed him in self-defence after an alleged altercation during which she was screaming for him to leave her flat.
Lucas denied wounding with intent and the less serious offence of unlawful wounding.
She was cleared of wounding with intent but convicted of wounding during a trial in September.
She was jailed for one year at her sentencing today at Canterbury Crown Court.