A woman who stabbed her partner in the back with a kitchen knife, and then attacked him again with screwdriver six months later, has been jailed.

Burnley Crown Court heard how Carrie-Anne Chippendale stabbed Paul Inskip between his shoulder blades during a drink-fuelled row in December last year.

An ambulance was called to the couple’s home address in York Street, Burnley, followed by the police, after the attack.

Prosecuting, Emma Kehoe said: “The defendant and the victim were highly intoxicated, and it seems there has been an argument between the two.

“The defendant went to get a kitchen knife and used it to first cut her own stomach and then she went to try and stab Mr Inskip in his legs.

"As he turned around to leave she stabbed him in the back, leaving a two centimetre injury close to his spine.”

The court was told how Mr Inskip refused to go with the paramedics to hospital and refused to co-operate with the police or make a statement.

Chippendale was arrested and then released by police under investigation, and it was while under investigation that she committed the second offence in June.

Miss Kehoe said there had been a number of arguments between the couple leading up to the second attack.

She went on: “Her chicken had been cooked by Mr Inskip and that caused an argument on this occasion.

"By her own admission, she saw red mist and got a screwdriver and stabbed the defendant with it.

“She says herself that she wanted to kill him in that moment, but thankfully she didn’t.”

Chippendale, 41, was arrested again and admitted the offence and was charged with both the screwdriver attack and the previous knife attack.

In mitigation, Kimberley Moreton said Chippendale had been the victim of domestic abuse by Inskip in the past and both were addicted to alcohol.

Passing sentence, Judge Andrew Jefferies said: “You were released under investigation for the first matter, in which you stabbed your partner, but then you re-established your relationship and stabbed him again while still under investigation.

“The aggravating features are outweighed by the mitigating features in that you are a victim of violence yourself.”

Chippendale pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed for 14 months.