Published: Friday, 29th February, 2008 4:30pm

Man stabbed in row over cigs

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A GOUROCK woman confessed to police how she stabbed her partner in the chest after a row over cigarettes.

Dawn Emonson told police she attacked her partner of four years with a kitchen knife after she asked him to get cigarettes from the bedroom at her Tower Drive home.

The sheriff court heard the pair had been at a christening during the day and continued drinking until the early hours of the morning.

An argument broke out between them after the victim refused to get her the cigarettes.

The 42-year-old picked up the knife from a kitchen worktop and struck the man in the chest three times.

He was left needing stitches to his chest, arms and shoulders as a result of the stab wounds.

When Emonson was questioned by police, she told them: “He had the key to my room and wouldn’t let me in. I kept asking him.

“There was a knife lying on the table. I think I picked it up, I can’t actually remember. I think I stabbed him with it.”

She admitted repeatedly striking the man on the body to his injury.

Defence agent Aidan Gallagher told the court the attack ‘was an isolated incident’.

He said: “She hasn’t demonstrated this type of behaviour in the past. Her partner appears to be fully supportive of her.”

Sheriff Vincent Canavan deferred sentence for three months for good behaviour, adding he would consider whether a custodial sentence would be appropriate at a later date.