The public prosecutor at the Charleroi Correctional Court on Monday requested a six-year prison sentence for a 38-year-old woman who admitted to stabbing her partner three times.
However, the defendant, who is currently being held in Mons Prison, denied any intention to commit homicide.
On 13 May, help was requested by a person who “had just discovered the victim in the bathroom of his neighbour’s flat," in Charleroi, the public prosecutor said. "He even said that the man was bleeding to death, very white and very tired.”
The victim had been stabbed thrice, once in the left arm and twice in the chest, near the heart.
In the meantime, the defendant had begun to clean the bathroom floor, the Deputy Public Prosecutor recalled.
The 38-year-old defendant admitted to stabbing her companion three times. “It wasn’t attempted murder. It was out of fear, I just wanted him to stop being violent because we were fighting,” she said.
For the prosecution, the defendant was motivated by an intention to commit homicide. “There is the weapon used, the location of the blows, dealt towards the heart, which is a lethal area, and the number of blows," the Office of the Public Prosecutor said. "Not to mention the determination shown by the defendant, who went into the kitchen to get the knife and did not call for help.”
A six-year prison sentence has been sought against the defendant, who is already known to the police thanks to a reported stab wound inflicted on an ex-partner in 2017.
The defence pleaded for a probationary suspension.
Judgement is expected on 18 September.
