A woman who stabbed her partner in the thigh with a steak knife, leaving the blade embedded in his leg, has spared an immediate prison sentence.
Courtney Bruce, 29, and her boyfriend had been in a five-year relationship and there had been no previous domestic violence issues before an isolated incident on 9 April 2022, Carlisle Crown Court heard today.
Both Bruce and the man had been drinking before an argument broke out in the kitchen about how he had been holding their pet poodle.
Bruce was pushed to the floor and, said prosecutor Kim Whittlestone: “She picked up a


