A retired civil servant caused injury to a woman after arming herself with a meat-cleaver and a knife at her home in Sunderland.
Evelyn Humphrey had drank a quarter bottle of gin and taken sleeping tablets before carrying out the offence at her then-Wearside home on January 25 this year. The incident occurred after concerns were raised for the 64-year-old's safety after she made a number of calls to her adult son.
Humphrey's son then attended her home on Wearmouth Drive along with Humphrey's ex-partner and his sister. But upon their arrival, the defendant stormed out of her home armed with two blades and "waved" a knife at her ex-partner's sister and causing injury to her hand.
