THIS is the bloodied mugshot of an alcoholic gran who knifed a man she on Plenty of Fish after they argued about the TV volume.

Margaret Parsons, 53, wounded the 61-year-old victim at her home in St Austell, Cornwall, on Christmas Eve.

Margaret Parsons was pictured with cuts on her face following the argument at her home Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

A court heard it was her third attack as she had already served 16 months in 2014 for stabbing her then husband and a further three and a half years for knifing a woman in 2016.

Truro Crown Court heard she is an alcoholic who was drunk each time and she was still on licence from a previous attack when she carried out her latest stabbing.

She admitted a wounding charge and was given 18 months in jail.

Parsons, of St Austell, Cornwall, was photographed with a number of cuts and lacerations to her dazed-looking face.

Ed Bailey, prosecuting, said: "Shortly after midnight on Christmas Eve police attended her address after an emergency call made by her son.



COVERED IN BLOOD

"Two PCs found the defendant, her son and the victim there with the defendant standing in the kitchen staring down the corridor looking dazed. Her face, hands and hair were covered in blood.

"The victim was lying on the sofa and had sustained serious wounds to his hands and head.

"He was drifting in and out of consciousness, drowsy and confused. The defendant initially resisted being cuffed and tried to struggle free before being tasered.

"An ambulance arrived and the victim was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, on the way officers noting a clump of the defendant's hair in one of his hands."

Parsons told officers that the victim bit her and had tried to stab her himself before she wrestled the knife off of him and attacked him.

MUSIC VOLUME

She claimed that on December 23 she and the victim had gone to her son's house nearby where they drank alcohol.

It was at about 9pm when they returned home that they had started to argue over the volume of music on the television.

During the altercation Parsons stabbed the victim to the head, face and hands before he was able to call her son who arrived and disarmed her.

The victim suffered multiple lacerations and during her formal police interview Parsons said that her partner was also a heavy drinker and that he had put a knife to her face, bit her and pulled her hair "which hurt a lot".

Defending Parsons, Rupert Taylor said that her life has been "blighted with alcohol" and that she had been doing well after being released on licence before "falling off the wagon".

Sentencing Parsons, Judge Simon Carr said: "A minor verbal argument about the volume of the music escalated and it would seem the complainant started the matter.

“What he did was pick up a knife and started stabbing you in a way intended to annoy you rather than harm you. More worryingly he hit you.

"There is no doubt you lost your temper and in the struggle that ensued you gained control of the knife and stabbed him a number of times. When taken by paramedics he had a clump of your hair in his hand.”

Parsons, pictured in 2014, was also arrested and jailed for a knife attack five years ago Credit: SWNS:South West News Service