Hell Hath no Fury... Like a Woman Scorned!

We rushed into the house and found a young man in his early twenties slumped in an armchair. Protruding from the centre of his chest was a very large carving knife! It had been driven clean through his sternum. The poor guy was gurgling and about to breathe his last. I thought Oh Shit!

The story is, he had gone to visit his estranged partner and there was an argument about child support and money. This rapidly developed into a full blown domestic dispute and it would seem that the neighbours had called for the police.

When the police arrived, they attempted to calm things down and succeeded. Or so they thought!

This incident had taken place in the living room. The female had asked to leave the room as she said she needed the toilet. She left, but on returning, rushed across the room at her estranged partner and stabbed him with a bloody great knife. She used such force that it went through his sternum. It would seem that she went to the kitchen, not the toilet.

And all of this in front of two police officers.

It must have been the two, who when I arrived, were sitting outside looking like the world had just ended. Fortunately the woman was on her way to the police station.

It is alleged that the woman had asked for money from her estranged partner. He apparently suggested that she earn it, by taking to the streets if you get my drift. This was clearly not the right thing to do.

The young man!

He died!

Despite vigorous attempts to resuscitate him and surgeons performing a thoracotomy (opening his chest) in the resuscitation room of the local A&E department he died. The knife had penetrated his heart.