Drunk husband sleeps through stabbing
A NEWLYWED who stabbed her drunken husband before cleaning the knife and putting it back in the kitchen drawer has received a wholly suspended jail sentence.
Sabrina Ann Thorpe, 27, waited for her husband of three months to fall asleep before stabbing him in the leg after a drunken fight, the Supreme Court in Hobart heard.
Thorpe told the court her husband had been physically abusive in the past and she "just snapped", grabbing the knife from the kitchen and thrusting it into his leg.
The drunken husband didn't wake, so Thorpe cleaned the knife with a sponge and put it back in the kitchen drawer before going to bed beside him and checking on the bleeding wound throughout the night.
When her husband woke the next morning, she told him he must have fallen when he was drunk.
The husband accused two friends who were staying at the couple's house of stabbing him, prompting Thorpe to confess.
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