Saturday 15 May 2010

Girl Teen Stabs Race-Row Dad



A 19 year-old, who stabbed her father during a violent race row - plunging a 5" vegetable knife into his leg - has dodged custody with a suspended sentence.

Crystal Bembridge followed her father upstairs at the family's Mitcham, South-West London home, and stabbed him as the row turned violent.

Neighbours called police and officers discovered bloodstained Henry Bembridge leaving via the back door and he was rushed to Mayday Hospital's casualty department for emergency surgery.

Crystal pleaded guilty at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court (pictured) to maliciously wounding her father on August 15, last year, causing him grievous bodily harm.

The court heard the defendant lives at the house with her parents and three other siblings and an argument broke out with Mr. Bembridge accusing Crystal's 15 year-old visiting friend of being a racist.

Family members joined in the row - taking the side of the 15 year-old - and the shouting and name-calling escalated until things got physical.

Mr. Bembridge pushed the defendant over a couple of times while unleashing a torrent of abuse and stormed upstairs, closely followed by Crystal who had grabbed the knife from the kitchen.

The mother tried to calm things down, even threatening to call 999, but Mr. Bembridge simply yanked the phone out of her hand and was then stabbed in the thigh by Crystal.

He received a two-inch wound that required seven stitches and refused to lodge an official complaint against his daughter, who confessed to the stabbing when quizzed by police.

Crystal was sentenced to fifty-one weeks custody, suspended for eighteen months and was placed under probation supervision for the same period.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Lol bt I got arrested with one slipper on looool