Spared jail to wed lover she stabbed
A WOMAN who stabbed her lover in the back when she caught him with his trousers down is to marry him – after being spared jail for the attack.
Shop worker Candy Lyons is to tie the knot with Robert Goldthorpe, despite cutting him with a carving knife when she caught him with her best friend.
Injured Robert always maintained he had not been playing the field – but merely showing off an old gardening injury caused by a hedge trimmer.
Candy, a 38-year-old mother of two with no previous convictions, was given a suspended one-year jail term this week after she admitted wounding. Goldthorpe, 35, of Crawley, West Sussex, was left on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood and needed nine stitches. He said yesterday: “I was shocked by what happened. It was not like Candy to do anything like that. I don’t think this would ever happen again. I love Candy dearly and I want to marry her.”
Candy’s lawyer Martha Walsh told Lewes Crown Court the stabbing happened because her client was drunk and over-reacted.
She said: “Miss Lyons put two and two together and made five. To say she is horrified by what she did is a substantial understatement.”