Jealous ex jailed for Walsall stab attack
A spurned sweetheart who ambushed her former fiancé outside a Walsall nightclub and stabbed him in the back three times was starting a five year jail sentence today.
Sandie Weston struck just days after seeing David Webster with another woman following the end of their tempestuous relationship, a judge heard.
The love sick 30-year-old had been ejected from Fever bar in Walsall town centre after grabbing him round the throat and punching him in the back, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told.
She took a taxi home, picked up a large kitchen knife and returned to wait for Mr Webster to leave at 2.30am, explained Miss Joanne Barker, prosecuting yesterday.
Miss Barker continued: "He saw her out of the corner of his eye, turned to face her and she swung her arm striking him a number of times to the back.
"By the second or third blow he realised he had been stabbed. The defendant then calmly told Mr Webster that she was going to kill him."
He wrestled the knife from her grasp before running back to the nightclub to tell door staff what had happened and give them the knife before collapsing, the court was told.
His injuries were treated at hospital but the slash wounds to his hands caused long term tendon and nerve damage, it was revealed.
Mr Webster said in a victim impact statement: "I thought I was going to die. It was the most traumatic experience I have ever been through either emotionally or physically.
"I have never felt so vulnerable before and have had trouble sleeping since. I think about what happened time and time again."
The ill fated romance started 10 years ago with a brief fling before being rekindled by a chance meeting in 2013.
On January 10, Weston saw Mr Webster dancing with another woman in a Walsall bar and punched him in the eye. The following Friday the defendant threw a drink over the victim when she saw him talking to a different woman at the same premises.
She followed him to Fever nightclub and was ejected before lying in wait for him to leave during the early hours of January 17.
Mr David Iles, defending, said: "She felt her nose was being rubbed in it after she saw him with another woman and snapped."
Weston, of Hillside Crescent, Pelsall pleaded guilty to wounding with intent, possessing a knife and assaulting Mr Webster seven days earlier.
She was jailed by Judge John Warner who also imposed a restraining order banning her from any future contact with Mr Webster who lives in Bloxwich.
