Zoe Adams has been jailed for 11 years and six months for stabbing her boyfriend during sex (Picture: Cascade)

A young mum ‘obsessed’ with male sacrifice has been jailed for stabbing her teenage boyfriend five times after persuading him to cover his face with a pillow during sex.

Zoe Adams, 19, was jailed for 11 years and six months after planning the attack on Kieran Bewick – then just 17 – moments after uttering the words ‘trust me’.

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Despite her claim she had panicked and had no memory of the attack, judge James Adkin told her trial at Carlisle Crown Court: ‘You had decided to cause serious harm to Mr Bewick during sex.’

He said she took a knife and duct tape – in the hope that she’d be able to tie her victim up – to the bedroom of her home in Wigton, Cumbria, before plunging the 10-inch knife into his chest.




Adams had earlier confronted her victim while wearing clown make-up – something she knew was his worst nightmare.

The judge today rejected her claim that she had panicked as her victim kissed her on the neck when they lay in bed.

Zoe Adams, 19, wore clown make-up and put a pillow over Kieran Bewick’s head ‘to make it kinkier’ before she stabbed him (Picture: Cumbria Police)

Disturbing images of sexual violence and murder were discovered on her phone after the July 29 attack, the court heard.

Judge Adkin told Adams, who sat weeping in the dock as the decision was given, that she had already known what she was about to do as she arrived at Mr Bewick’s bedroom door dressed as a clown.

‘I am sure that by that time you had already become uninhibited by drink and drugs and the more sadistic side of your personality had come to dominate,’ said Judge Adkin.

In his victim impact statement, Mr Bewick said he had struggled to sleep since the attack, which left him with a collapsed lung and pneumonia.

‘I struggle with the knowledge that someone I genuinely cared about would do this to me,’ he said.

‘Just after I got out of hospital, this thought played on my mind a lot.

Victim Kieran Bewick, 18, outside Carlisle crown court (Picture: Mirrorpix)

‘But having had time to think about it, I am convinced that she planned it. It wasn’t personal. She was going to do it to someone and it just happened to be me.

‘Strangely, that makes it easier to deal with.’

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He was going to be scarred mentally and emotionally for the rest of his life, he said, adding: ‘I have always had a fear of clowns and Zoe knew this. This will now only increase my fear of clowns.’

At Carlisle Crown Court this week, Adams tried to convince a judge that the version of the attack given by her victim was inaccurate.

Despite admitting causing grievous bodily harm with intent, she told the court the stabbing had been an ‘overreaction’.

Mr Bewick, now 18, suffered what the judge said had been life-threatening injuries – two stab wounds to his chest, and cuts to a leg, an arm, and a hand.

Giving evidence, Adams told the court Mr Bewick, who was staying with her at the time of the attack, was one of her closest friends.

They had sex a month before the stabbing but Adams said she regretted it and did not want to sleep with Mr Bewick again.

Zoe Adams had disturbing images of sexual violence and murder on her phone

In his evidence, he described how on the Saturday evening when he was attacked, he and Adams had been drinking and she was also smoking cannabis.



He twice refused Adams’ request to tie him to the bed before she asked him to put a pillow over his head, saying: ‘Cos it’s kinkier that way.’ Mr Berwick said he agreed as a compromise.

Some of the disturbing content found on the attackers phone included an image of a blood-covered woman with the caption: ‘Murder is like a bag of chips: you can’t stop after just one.’

One message read: ‘I don’t think about males unless said male is strapped up and being used as a human sacrifice – you should be grateful you are not part of it.’

Sentencing her to more than a decade behind bars, the judge told Adams she was ‘cruel and sadistic’.