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Student Told ‘You Are Too Extra-ordinary’ To go Jail, After Stabbing Boyfriend

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Despite admitting the brutal, violent attack, Judge Ian Pringle QC told her in May that she was unlikely to go to prison.

Lavinia Woodward, the 24-year-old medical student at Oxford University, who attacked her boyfriend with a bread knife in a drink and drug-fuelled attack.
She stabbed him in the leg, she then hurled a laptop, a glass and a jam jar at him at their college Christ Church.

At the time Judge Pringle delayed sentencing and gave her a restraining order.
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She was told by a judge in May that she was too ‘extraordinary’ to go to prison.
Now, she has been given a 10-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months at Oxford Crown Court. This means that, unless she commits another offence within the next year and a half, she won’t be jailed.
Judge Pringle said: ‘There are many mitigating features in your case. Principally, at the age of 24 you have no previous convictions of any nature whatsoever.
‘Secondly, I find that you were genuinely remorseful following this event and, indeed, it was against your bail conditions, you contacted your partner to fully confess your guilt and your deep sorrow for what happened.
‘Thirdly, whilst you are a clearly highly-intelligent individual, you had an immaturity about you which was not commensurate for someone of your age.

 

 

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