{"id":34862,"date":"2017-05-17T00:42:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=34862"},"modified":"2017-05-17T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:42:59","slug":"stabbing-suspect-avoid-jail-shes-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=34862","title":{"rendered":"Stabbing suspect could avoid jail because she\u2019s so \u2018bright\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A top Oxford University student who stabbed her boyfriend could be spared jail \u2014 because she\u2019s so clever and it would damage her career.<\/p>\n

Aspiring heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward, 24, met the man on Tinder but then punched and swiped at him with a bread knife during a drink-and-drug fueled row.<\/p>\n

She then stabbed the Cambridge-educated boyfriend in the leg before hurling a laptop, glass and a jam jar at him at leafy Christ Church college, Oxford in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Woodward admitted a charge of unlawful wounding at Oxford Crown Court and Judge Ian Pringle said the offence would normally mean a jail sentence.<\/p>\n

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But he then delayed sentencing for a period of four months and hinted she may not be put away \u2013 because of her \u201dextraordinary\u201d talent.<\/p>\n

The court was told her college will allow her to return in October because she \u201cis that bright\u201d, having had articles published in medical journals.<\/p>\n

Judge Pringle said jailing her could be unfair because it may affect her career.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt seems to me that if this was a one-off, a complete one-off, to prevent this extraordinary able young lady from not following her long-held desire to enter the profession she wishes to, would be a sentence which would be too severe.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you did will never, I know, leave you but it was pretty awful, and normally it would attract a custodial sentence, whether it is immediate or suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodward did not attend court as she was in Milan with her mom.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutor Cathy Olliver said Woodward met her ex on Tinder and on the day of the attack on September 30 her behavior \u201cdeteriorated\u201d.<\/p>\n

The student boyfriend called Woodward\u2019s mum on Skype, and his then-girlfriend punched him in the face before picking up a bread knife and stabbing him in the leg.<\/p>\n

Defense lawyer James Sturman said his client\u2019s dreams of becoming a surgeon were \u201calmost impossible\u201d as her conviction would have to disclosed.<\/p>\n

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