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Judge who spared aspiring Oxford student from jail after she stabbed her partner is under investigation
A judge who spared an aspiring Oxford University student from jail after she stabbed her boyfriend is being investigated. Ian Pringle QC gave promising heart surgeon Lavinia Woodward a suspended sentence for attacking her then partner in a drunken assault. Woodward, 24, stabbed her Cambridge University boyfriend in the leg with a bread knife but in an unusual move the judge spared her jail describing her as an “extraordinarily able young lady”, whose talents meant that a prison sentence would be “too severe”.
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