A WOMAN was unrepentant after stabbing her partner of six years with a kitchen knife, a court heard.

Lynette Burrows said later of the wound to Andrew Spendley’s arm: “I wish it was deeper and it was his throat.”

But the 52-year-old grandmother walked free after a judge at Maidstone Crown Court agreed to suspend a four-month jail sentence for 18 months.

A court heard that the relationship had deteriorated and the couple had been arguing at their home in Warren Close, Folkestone, on February 26.

Jane Scotchmer, prosecuting, said Burrows slapped and punched Mr Spendley.

She then went to the kitchen and fetched the knife.

She went to the victim’s room and told him: “I am going to stab you.” He felt pain in his left arm before taking the knife from her. He suffered a puncture wound.

The police were called and Burrows told officers: “Yes, I agree to everything.”

Ian Foinette, defending, said Mr Spendley had been cautioned for assaulting Burrows.

“Emotions were running high,” said Mr Foinette. “She went to hit him and that is when the knife injury occurred.”

The house had now been sold and Burrows was moving to rented accommodation.

“He would like to put things right,” he said. “She wants nothing more to do with him.”

Mr Foinette submitted that a conditional discharge for her admission of assault causing actual bodily harm was realistic.

But Judge Charles MacDonald, QC, said it was “a bit optimistic for domestic violence using a knife”.

Burrows, he said, had not shown any real remorse in the aftermath of the attack, but she did now.

“It seems to me this matter is too serious to be dealt with by a fine or community order, let alone a conditional discharge,” said the judge. “There is public concern about domestic violence.”

He made it a requirement of the sentence that the couple should not live in the same house for 18 months.