A woman stabbed her boyfriend with a steak knife as they lay naked together in bed because he had turned her down for sex, a court heard.

Vicky Ludlow, 37, left her boyfriend with a punctured lung in the stabbing at his flat in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.

In the early hours of April 26, Ludlow – who was drunk – told her boyfriend: ‘I’m going to stab you’, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was told.

Vicky Ludlow stabbed her partner while in bed (Picture: BPM MEDIA)

The man managed to escape the house and lock Ludlow inside, but fell down the stairs where he was found naked by a neighbour with ‘blood everywhere’.


She has now been jailed for six years after admitting the attack.



Prosecutor Glyn Samuel said the victim’s injury ‘felt like a punch because it made a thud’.

‘It was only when the knife was withdrawn as it had a serrated edge that he realised what it was,’ the prosecutor said.

‘She had a steak knife in her hand. He pinned her down. He managed to twist her arm so the knife stabbed in the mattress. He fled. He locked her in the flat and called 999.

‘He felt dizzy and fell down the stairs. His neighbour heard a commotion caused by the defendant banging on the inside of the door. She found the victim covered in blood.’

Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard Ludlow stabbed him with a steak knife (Picture: PA Archive)

Ludlow, from Worcestershire, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Stuart Muldoon, mitigating, said: ‘She is genuinely remorseful.’

Judge David Fletcher told Ludlow: ‘This was a very serious incident. You were affected by the vast amount of alcohol you had consumed.

‘You were volatile and your mood was changing from being loving towards him to flying off the handle, threatening him and carrying out the threat you made.

‘You have sought solace in alcohol for well over 20 years. That has to stop. You cannot drink because if you do the risk is there.’

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