Saturday 30 September 2017

Judge who spared aspiring Oxford student from jail after she stabbed her partner is under investigation

Judge who spared aspiring Oxford student from jail after she stabbed her partner is under investigation

A judge who spared an aspiring Oxford University student from jail after she stabbed her boyfriend is being investigated. Ian Pringle QC gave promising heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward a suspended sentence for attacking her then partner in a drunken assault. Woodward, 24, stabbed her Cambridge University boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife but in an unusual move the judge spared her jail describing her as an “extraordinarily able young lady”, whose talents meant that a prison sentence would be “too severe”.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/29/judge-spared-oxford-student-jail-bright-stabbed-partner-investigation/?source=Snapzu

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