Ebbw Vale woman 'stabbed neighbour' - court hears (From South Wales Argus)

Ebbw Vale woman 'stabbed neighbour' - court hears

2:30pm Saturday 6th March 2010

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AN EBBW Vale woman was remanded in custody yesterday, after admitting stabbing her neighbour in the chest.

Paula Williams, 43, of Tredegar Road, Hilltop, appeared in Newport Crown Court and pleaded guilty to wounding with intent following an incident on December 26 last year when a 54-year-old man was stabbed.

Prosecutor Owen Williams told the court Gerald Coffey was in his bedsit in Tredegar Road on Boxing Day last year, when there was a knock at the door and Williams was stood on the doorstep with an eight-inch bread knife.

He said Williams made an accusation about Mr Coffey and then stabbed him in the chest.

The court heard the knife caused a wound two-centimetres deep in the man's chest.

Officers were called to Tredegar Road, at around 12.45pm, after reports a man had been stabbed.

The man was taken to Abergavenny's Nevil Hall Hospital, where he received treatment for his injury.

Williams's counsel, Jeffrey Jones, asked for the case to be adjourned while psychiatric and pre-sentence reports were compiled.

The Recorder of Cardiff, Nicholas Cooke QC, remanded Williams in custody and ordered the reports be carried out.

Williams will be sentenced on April 16.

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