Published: Wednesday, 6th August, 2008 09:30
Woman stabs mum’s lover
By Court reporter
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Daughter caught with blood on her hands
AN angry daughter stabbed her mum’s lover in the chest after an all day booze binge.
Laura O’Malley, 24, attacked her victim after a day sinking tonic wine near their Clydebank home.
And she was collared by police who spotted her hiding by a car wash with blood on her hands, Dumbarton Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday.
Malcolm McLeod, fiscal depute, told the court how O’Malley, along with her mother and the victim, had been drinking in a neighbour’s house on the day of the incident.
He said: “At about 7pm [the victim] was hungry and went upstairs to cook some food.
“Miss O’Malley went into her bedroom, took a knife and went into the living room and stabbed the complainer on the left side of his body.
“The attack left the complainer bleeding out the side of his chest.
“He ran downstairs for help from his neighbours who called an ambulance. Miss O’Malley then changed her clothing and left the flat for a nearby car wash.
“It appears the police were called and as they made their way to the flat, passed the car wash where she was hiding behind a wall.
“They saw blood on her hands and stopped to speak to her.”
Speaking to the officers, O’Malley said: “Yer maw’s yer maw — he deserved it. I’m saying nothing.”
O’Malley plead guilty to stabbing her mum’s boyfriend to his severe injury at 61/3 Whitecrook Street, Whitecrook, on June 30 this year.
Stephen Wight, defending, said: “This is the first time she has appeared on indictment on such a serious crime.
“Although her record is lengthy it is mainly breach of the peace matters.
“Miss O’Malley thought [the victim] had taken advantage of her mother’s generosity. She believed he had used offensive language and humiliated her mother, putting her down.
“She was separated from her mother at a young age when they lived in Ireland and there have been some mental health difficulties following on from this, including a personality disorder.
“This explains the close, protective bond she has with her mum.
“There are two sides to Miss O’Malley — she is nice when sober and to highlight this, [the victim] wrote a letter to ask for the charges against her to be dropped.
“However she has indicated she wants no reports to be done and has told me when pleading guilty ‘I know what I have done’.
Sentencing, Sheriff Simon Pender said: “This was a serious assault with a large knife, though I take account of your plea of guilty.”
O’Malley, c/o Cornton Vale Prison, was sentenced to two years in prison backdated to June 2.
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