A WOMAN has been jailed for four-and-a-half years following a street knife attack that left a man with a torn liver.
Michelle Wheatley, of Syke Crescent, Blackburn appeared for sentence at Preston Crown Court after being convicted of wounding with intent by a jury following a trial last month.
The court had heard how 41-year-old Wheatley knew her victim Philip Wiggins as they were both staying at the Devonshire Hotel near Blackburn railway station.
Wheatley had been drunk on July 8 when she attacked Mr Wiggins, stabbing him twice with a four-inch kitchen knife.
Mr Francis McEntee, prosecuting, told the court Mr Wiggins was stabbed once in his abdomen causing a wound to his liver and the second was a defensive wound to his arm.
Mr Justice Flaux told Wheatley:"Whatever the reason was for what you did, there can be no excuse for the vicious attack on Mr Wiggins."
"This was a violent and unpleasant attack involving the use of a knife."
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