A dad was left permanently scarred after he was attacked by his own daughter, a court heard. Carer Millie Hendren, 20, of Albert Avenue, Stapleford, stabbed Steven Hendren in Newark on August 4, 2020.
She pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm. When she appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, April 20, for sentencing, a judge told her: "Fuelled by alcohol, you used a knife to stab your father."
Hendren, a mum to a little girl, had accepted she grabbed hold of a kitchen knife on the side which went beyond self-defence. At the time Mr Hendren was in a new relationship with a woman who was a close cousin of the defendant.
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As they drank booze, play fighting started between the two women, who had a four-year age difference between them. A row started around family relationships, with Hendren forming the perception inflammatory remarks were made about her mum.
Mr Hendren kicked his daughter to the chest, causing her to fall downstairs, the court was told. She armed herself with the knife and stabbed him. He had small wounds to his stomach, left forearm and right leg.
Hendren said she was gutted by what happened. Her father needed ten days off work. The incident caused anxiety, and, he said: "I can't believe she took the knife and attacked me with it."
Lauren Fisher, mitigating, said Hendren's mother and father were together for 19 years. Her mother left the address one week before this happened. Then Hendren's father announced he was in a new relationship with his daughter's close cousin.
Miss Fisher said: "On the night all parties were drinking. It was undoubtedly a contributing factor. There were discussions, in her mind, which were disrespectful to her mother who had only recently left.
"It was accepted she (the defendant) was kicked downstairs by her father. She went into the kitchen, followed by her father, and made the foolish decision to take hold of the knife. She accepts that is no longer her acting in self-defence when she picks up the knife."
In a pre-sentence report Hendren was genuinely remorseful by her behaviour, "gutted" in her police interview, and devastated by what happened, added Miss Fisher.
Her actions left her homeless and sleeping on sofas. Now she is a carer working 15 hours a week and takes the antidepressant, Mezepine. Judge James Sampson imposed a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and 15 rehabilitation activity days.
"Fuelled by alcohol, you used a knife to stab your father," he told her in the dock. "The Crown accept that this was part of an altercation; that your actions, as per your basis of plea, were beyond self-defence, and it caused nasty injuries with permanent scarring."
Hendren had no previous convictions. On the sentencing guidelines, if she has been convicted after a trial, the starting point for someone without previous convictions was a 36-week prison sentence.
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