By Staff Reporter

Last updated at 11:31, Thursday, 20 September 2012

A drunken man stabbed his “bossy” girlfriend with a carving knife because he did not like the way she was constantly telling him what to do.

Alison Ediss, 20, suffered a wound to her shoulder when 26-year-old Kirk Satterthwaite hit her with the knife in the kitchen of her home in Kirkby Stephen on the evening of July 14.

Satterthwaite pleaded guilty to causing her actual bodily harm, but claimed he did it by accident when recklessly waving the knife around while trying to split a packet of burgers.

But a judge at Carlisle Crown Court rejected that explanation, saying the type of injury Ms Ediss received could only have been caused by Satterthwaite jabbing the knife at her.

Satterthwaite was ordered to pay Alison Ediss £400 compensation, put under 12 months’ probation supervision and given an electronically monitored curfew to keep him indoors at his parents’ home in Redmayne Road, Kirkby Stephen, from 9pm to 6am for the next three months.

He was also banned indefinitely from having any contact with his former girlfriend.

The court heard that on the day of the incident Satterthwaite had drunk at least 15 pints of beer and on his own admission was “really, really drunk”.

Once back at Ms Ediss’s home Satterthwaite became agitated, and accused Ms Ediss of “winding him up”.

She told the court he was waving the knife around while he spoke to her, though said she did not feel in any way threatened.

When she turned to leave he stabbed her in the back of the shoulder, she said. Asked if she thought the blow was deliberate, she replied: “I don’t know if it was or it wasn’t.”

Satterthwaite said he was angry with Ms Ediss because she had been “bossing me around all day”.

“It was like her being my Mum,” he said. But he said he had not intended to hurt her.

Defence advocate Chris Toms said Satterthwaite was a former grammar school boy “with plenty of ability”. He told the judge: “I don’t think he has made the best of the opportunities life has given him.”

The judge agreed and told Satterthwaite, who works as a farm labourer: “You are not doing anything with your life. You are drifting about, taking drugs and drinking yourself into the most disgusting state.”

First published at 11:27, Thursday, 20 September 2012
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