A woman slashed her ex-partner with a knife when he intervened in a drunken confrontation between her and a friend. Nikkola Lewis left her victim with a deep gash on one arm which exposed the underlying muscle and required plastic surgery to repair. Lewis has multiple previous convictions for offences of violence for which she has always been dealt with by sentences of non-immediate custody – until now.
Georgia Donohue, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that on July 18, 2021, a noisy "commotion" could be heard coming from the defendant's flat in Neath. She said Lewis' former partner was visiting his brother who lived in the same block and, concerned at what may be going on upstairs, he went to investigate. When the ex entered the defendant's flat he found Lewis and a female friend involved in argument. Lewis was holding a Stanley-type knife while her friend had a pair of scissors.
The court heard the ex-partner tried to intervene but Lewis "lunged forward" and the victim immediately felt a pain in his arm and saw blood pour from a gash. The victim left the flats and rang 999 but by chance a friend was driving past the address in his car and he drove the bleeding man to Morriston Hospital. Meanwhile police had arrived at the flats and found the 42-year-old defendant "unsteady on her feet and slurring her words". Officers recovered a craft knife with blood stains on it from the property.
