Mallow hairdresser stabbed husband in the back after wine and cider binge

AN unemployed hairdresser in a doomed marriage drank six glasses of wine and seven pints of cider on the night that ended with her stabbing her husband in the back with a carving knife.

Laura Egan, 24, formerly of Castlepark Drive, Mallow, pleaded guilty to the serious assault on Gerry Egan at their home on June 14, 2008, and was given a suspended three-year sentence at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

Laura Egan rang 999 as soon as her husband slumped to the ground with what was a life-threatening injury. Garda John Horgan described yesterday how he responded to the call and arrived to find Mr Egan on his hands and knees in a large pool of blood.