A raging mam took a cordless drill to her partner’s head and stabbed him with a carving knife leaving him with a punctured lung.

Leanne Harvey, 47, also smashed a glass pan lid over her boyfriend’s head and stabbed him in the hand with a fish knife. Teesside Crown Court heard the couple’s 15-year relationship deteriorated during Covid, as the couple drank and took crack cocaine.

During an argument on December 6, 2022, Harvey picked up a fish fork, and stabbed her partner to the back of his hand. Peter Sabiston, prosecuting, said that she then “tried to drill a hole in the back of his head.”

The victim was bleeding but “did not want to get his partner into trouble” meaning the prosecution have no further details about the severity of the injuries, and the level of force used with the power tool.

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The court heard that the couple were staying in Great Ayton at the time, and had been drinking.

Almost a year later, on November 21, 2023, they had an argument whilst in bed. Mr Sabiston said that Harvey had got her partner a can of cider, before she accused him of kissing someone else. “She then made threats to hurt his mother and other members of his family,” Mr Sabiston told the court, ” when they were in the kitchen, she took a glass pan lid and struck him to the head with it. The lid shattered.”

The man thought the attack was over, and turned his back to make some toast. But Harvey stabbed him in the chest with a carving fork, leaving him with a punctured lung, and bleeding heavily from two other puncture wounds.

Harvey called an ambulance to the family’s Middlesbrough home. When he was being treated in hospital, the victim told medics about the attack with the drill the year before. The court heard that he has since “withdrawn his support for the prosecution.”

When the police arrived, Harvey told them that she “had hit” her partner. She later pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm; and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. In January 2021, she was fined for assaulting an emergency worker.

In mitigation, Jonathan Walker told the court that the two were “bored and stuck inside” during Covid as their relationship came to an end in 2021. He said: “She’s extremely sorry. She knows she’s going to spend a protracted amount of time in prison – which has been a difficult experience for her.

“Her attitude is to her credit. She did call the emergency services and openly said that she hit him. What was a positive union became a destructive relationship through the mutual use of alcohol and crack cocaine. Her entire life has been soaked in drugs and alcohol.”

Harvey appeared in court via video link from Low Newton prison. Wearing a pink jumper, she played with her hair as she waited to hear what her sentence would be.

Judge Thomas Mitchell told her: “What you are here for today is a quantum leap in your offending. I accept that you are heartily sorry. You called an ambulance but by that point, the damage was done.

“This is very unpleasant indeed – taking a drill to somebody. On top of stabbing them with a fish fork. You caused copious bleeding. I’ve no doubt it caused tremendous fear and shock. We have no other information about the injuries.

“A year later, in a bad domestic context involving drink and drugs – you had no right to do what you did. You struck him to the back of the head with a pan lid. You stabbed him with a carving knife. No doubt this happened in the heat of the moment, in a fit of rage.”

Harvey, of Elder Court in central Middlesbrough, was jailed for 47 months, less the eight months she has spent on remand. She will serve half of the sentence before being released on licence.