WOMAN STABS MAN IN THE BELLY FOR REFUSING TO MAKE LOVE TO HER

A heavy-drinking drug user has
been jailed after stabbing a man in
the belly because he refused to
made love with her. Joanne
Buckley, 29, would not let her
victim David Tawes seek medical
help after plunging a knife into his
abdomen and told him she would
say she knifed him because he
tried to molest her.
Teesside Crown Court was told how
the victim would have died had the
blade entered his body millimetres
either side.
Buckley, 29, was jailed for three years for her part in the attack on March 23 this year,
while friend Sophie Borrell, 17, was jailed for six months. The pair came across Mr
Tawes, 20, in Middlesbrough town centre and invited him back to their home in Emerald
Street for a drink.
Shaun Dodds, prosecuting, said each of them tried to instigate sex with him.
Borrell punched him in the back of the head and tried to choke him while Buckley then
went through Mr Tawes’ pockets for his mobile phones and wallet.
The victim was punched again by Buckley, and when he got up and walked towards the
doors asking for his belongings back, she plunged the knife into him.
Mr Dodds said: 'Buckley wiped the blade on a cloth and went to the bathroom to wash
it.
'She was shown the wound and said: “Oh my God” and to her credit, took a cloth to
press on the wound.' But their concern for him appears to have turned to themselves
because they both told him he was going nowhere.
'He said he needed to go to hospital. 'Joanne Buckley said: “I know what, we will all go
to the police station and say he tried to molest us, and that’s why I stabbed him.”
Mr Tawes managed to escape and called police.
Nigel Soppitt, for Buckley, said: “It was another day in her chaotic life - a variety of
drugs and a bottle of vodka each day was completely the norm. The pitiful aspect of the
case is that was everyday for her.
'She would obtain money from wherever and spend it on drink and drugs and be in a
state of oblivion.'
Borrell’s barrister, Joanne Kidd, said she had suffered difficulties that led to her mixing
with older and more sophisticated people and getting