Medical student Woodward met her boyfriend, a student of Cambridge University student, on the dating app Tinder.
During the attack, she thumped him, lunged at him with a bread knife, and stabbed him in the leg. Judge Pringle was told that Woodward had become addicted to drugs and had previously been in an abusive relationship with a previous boyfriend.
He said he would take an “exceptional” course of action and defer sentencing until September.
Defense barrister James Sturman QC had argued that it would be “almost impossible” for Woodward to become a surgeon once she had disclosed her conviction to employers. The judge has ordered Woodward to remain drug-free and told her she would be sentenced on 25 September. It is also reported that Woodward has had material published in medical journals such as Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Hypertension and The Journal of Physiology.
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