A ‘sinister'young mother stabbed and battered her boyfriend while he failed to call her every two hours on a night out, leaving him so badly injured paramedics believed he was dead, a court heard yesterday.
ContinueRhiann Burnie, 21, punched bricklayer Shane McMullen, 23, then knifed him in the shoulder before illuminating a cigarette and mopping up blood as he lay on the floor clinging alive, the jury at Burnley Crown Court was told.
The prosecution claim she flew right into a rage about him planning to an engagement party and leaving her at home with her two-year-old daughter.
Despite the wound severing an important artery and causing significant blood loss, Mr McMullen survived but has suffered memory loss and has nightmares to be stabbed again.
A jury was told he have been attacked simply because he forgot to ring her ‘every handful of hours'as she demanded.
Burnley Crown Court was told the couple have been in a relationship for one year and initially was ‘happy and healthy'yet a ‘darker more sinister side'of Burnie's character emerged, said Miss Rachel Woods, prosecuting.
Burnie had on two previous occasions turned on him with a knife with Mr McMullen needing to wrestle them off her, it is alleged.
She'd also smashed doors and furniture during heated arguments and had revealed she have been advised to go to anger management courses.
Miss Woods added: ‘She revealed a different side of her character, a volatile side, an aggressive side, an unpredictable side where she would lose her temper and damage the property and furniture, doors, in a fit of rage.
‘No sooner would she explode she would calm down. In flashes of temper the knife would emerge and then matters would settle down – Mr McMullen had little realisation what lay ahead.'
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