Oxford student who stabbed boyfriend gets suspended sentence

An Oxford University student who stabbed her boyfriend with a bread knife will be able to avoid prison after receiving a suspended sentence Monday.

Lavinia Woodward, a medical student hoping to be a surgeon, met her boyfriend, Thomas Fairclough, through the dating app Tinder.

When the incident happened, Fairclough tried to call the police to stop her. "I think my girlfriend has taken a lot of drugs and is throwing a lot of stuff around the house." Fairclough told in the operator and was asked if Woodward had been on drugs. "Yes, she’s definitely on cocaine at least," he replied.

Woodward was given a 10-month suspended sentence. The judge had said in May that he might not impose prison time, which prompted some British newspapers to complain she was getting special treatment because of her connection to the elite university.

The Sun tabloid wrote that she was judged "too brainy to be jailed."

Oxford Crown Court Judge Ian Pringle told Woodward there were many "mitigating" factors that allowed him to suspend her sentence.

"Principally, at the age of 24 you have no previous convictions of any nature whatsoever," he said. "Secondly, I find that you were genuinely remorseful following this event."

He also said experts had concluded she suffered from a personality disorder, a severe eating disorder and dependence on alcohol and drugs.

The lawyer said that Woodward's dreams of being a surgon were "almost impossible" when her convition is disclosed // Photo via Facebook

Photo via Facebook

The judge credited her with being "determined" to get rid of her drug and alcohol addictions.

"Finally, and most significantly, you have demonstrated over the last nine months that you are determined to rid yourself of your alcohol and drug addiction and have undergone extensive treatment including counseling to address the many issues that you face," he said.

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Woodward had pleaded guilty earlier to "unlawful wounding," which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

The incident happened on Dec. 30. The judge said her boyfriend visited her, found out she had been drinking, and called her mother, which infuriated Woodward.

He said she then attacked him with a bread knife, stabbing him in the lower leg, before turning the knife on herself. He said the boyfriend intervened to prevent her from harming herself.

Woodward posed to raise money for school's LGBT group society.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is joining Venezuela's president and the man charged with gunning down United Healthcare’s CEO in a notorious federal lockup in New York City.

The embattled 29-year-old artist, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, reported to the Metropolitan Detention Center in his native Brooklyn on Tuesday to serve out his latest stint behind bars.

He drove up to the gates of the jail in a luxury van with internet personality Adin Ross and a camera crew streaming live as he turned himself in.

The facility is the only federal jail in New York City but is so troubled that some judges have refused to send people there and others have described it as “ hell on earth ” for its poor conditions and constant violence.

It currently houses Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing Brian Thompson, the leader of the country's biggest health insurer.

Over the years, MDC Brooklyn has housed a constellation of other infamous inmates, including music stars R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs and longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Hernandez’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment Tuesday, but have said previously that the rapper looked forward to serving out his sentence so he could resume his music career.

Hernandez admitted last year to assaulting a man and possessing drugs, in violation of the terms of his supervised release in a gang-related case.

He was sentenced in December to serve three more months in federal custody. He was previously slapped with a 45-day sentence in 2024 for breaking the terms of his supervised release.

Hernandez shot to fame with the 2017 release of his song “Gummo,” but the following year he pleaded guilty to his involvement with a violent New York-based gang, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

He was sentenced to two years in prison in 2019, followed by five years of supervised release for his cooperation in the racketeering case against other gang members.

He was released from federal prison several months early during the height of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Hernandez's latest sentence is related to small amounts of cocaine and ecstasy found at his Miami home during a police raid. Prosecutors say he also punched a man who taunted him at a Florida mall over his cooperation against gang members.

FILE - Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine watches a baseball game between the Miami Marlins and New York Mets, Aug. 3, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)