Michelle Ashcroft was spared jail after explaining she was under a lot of pressure during the coronavirus pandemic
A healthcare assistant cut her boyfriends clothes before stabbing him in the hand in a drunken row.
Michelle Ashcroft, 31, attacked Zac Cheetham at her home in the early hours of the morning.
She then rang the police and confessed to stabbing him, before telling officers she had used a kitchen knife.
However, Mr Cheetham said it was actually a pair of scissors and refused to make a police statement.
Ashcroft was spared jail after explaining she was under a lot of pressure during the coronavirus pandemic.
She was allowed to attend her sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court via Skype from her home in St Helens, reports the
ECHO
Paul Blasbery, prosecuting, said police went to her address, in Grafton Street, at around 4.40am on April 2.
He said: "When those officers attended that address the door was ajar and they spoke to Miss Ashcroft.
"They immediately formed the view she was under the influence of alcohol. She was upset and she was crying.
"When she was asked what had occurred, her reply was 'I'm just depressed, it's just like isolation is getting to everybody, I don't even know, me and my partner got in a fight and I don't know, but he ended up putting his hand out and I stabbed him in the hand, like right through, I didn't mean to'.
"She stated she had used a kitchen knife."
