A HOMELESS woman from Kingsteignton has been jailed for stabbing a man in the head after warning ‘someone’s getting hurt tonight’. 

Katie Rockett used the blade from a craft knife to slash victim James Clarke just above his ear and cause a 5cm cut. She told him she wanted to cut his head off and put it on a spiked railing. 

She was out with her boyfriend Ryan Dodd, who started the attack on Mr Clarke.

She advanced towards Mr Clarke, who felt a cut to the side of his head before Rockett and Dodd walked off. They were filmed on CCTV congratulating each other. 

The same CCTV had earlier recorded her saying ‘someone’s getting hurt’ and ‘see the blade’.

Rockett, 30, of no fixed address but previously of Kingsteignton, admitted wounding with intent, theft of a coat, and possession of a blade and was jailed for three years by Judge Stephen Climie at Exeter Crown Court.

Dodd, 30, of Torquay, admitted battery and will be sentenced later. 

The judge told Rockett the offence was aggravated by her abuse of drink and drugs and said: ‘On the evidence before me, you were totally out of control that night.’

Mr Kennan Siva, said the confrontation ended with Mr Clarke being stabbed twice, once in the back and once in the head and it is accepted Rockett was responsible for the second injury, which was 5 cm long and only skin deep.

She had been acting in an agitated manner from the moment she and Dodd left his flat and had made threats to hurt someone, to cut someone’s throat, and to cut off Mr Clarke’s head and impale it on railings. 

Mr Paul Dentith, defending, said Rockett acted out of a perverse loyalty to Dodd, who was her partner at the time, and as a result of being in such psychological turmoil she had been prevented from jumping from the top of a multi-storey car park shortly before the stabbing.

She has a history of poor mental health, suicide attempts and self-harm linked to suffering sexual abuse in childhood and domestic abuse during adult relationships.