A mum-of-two knifed her sleeping friend in the neck in a revenge attack after she had bottled her during a two-day cocaine and booze binge.
Jamie-lea Lundon, and Charlene Tootle, both 26, set off on the bender on Monday, October 5 this year.
Liverpool Crown Court heard they ended up back at Lundon’s home in Cubbin Crescent, Vauxhall .
Miss Tootle hit her pal with a beer bottle, causing a cut to her right ear, before passing out on a sofa.
She awoke an hour later to find Lundon kneeling beside her on the phone to emergency services.
Frank Dillon, prosecuting, said: “She was shouting ‘I’ve stabbed her, she needs help, she is bleeding’.”
He said Miss Tootle – who claimed the pair had not argued before she fell asleep – felt very dizzy and drifted in and out of consciousness.
Lundon dialled 999 and told the operator she had “stabbed her mate three times in the neck and in the thigh” with a large kitchen knife.
When armed police arrived they found Lundon covered in blood, screaming that she stabbed her friend because she had been bottled.
Miss Tootle, whose clothes were also covered in blood, asked police: “am I going to die?”
Miraculously, all four of her wounds including a 1cm gash to her left thigh were described by doctors as “superficial” and did not require stitches.
The court heard Miss Tootle later tried to retract a police statement and refused to sign a victim personal statement.
Still drunk Lundon, who confirmed she had not eaten or slept for two days, told officers: “I’m making a full and frank admission, I stabbed that girl, I hope she dies.”
Lundon said she had felt blood trickling down her face as she sat seething after she was bottled and “snapped”.
But she accepted it was not self-defence as it happened an hour later and again said she hoped Miss Tootle died.
Lundon denied attempted murder but pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
She has 11 previous convictions for 24 offences, including a racially aggravated public order offence in 2013.
The court heard a petrol station worker in Scotland Road, Vauxhall told her and a man not to smoke by the petrol pumps and she called him a “f***ing p***”.
Lundon also received a caution for battery after she was seen to hit one of her daughters in the head with an open palm.
She told police she had struck the child because she was “dawdling”.
The Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool Magistrates’ Court
Simon Driver, defending, said the two women had known each for many years.
He said according to Lundon’s mum “they have a mutually harmful effect on each other as they both share addictions and on occasions binge together”.
Mr Driver said: “They travelled from licensed premises to licensed premises, sustaining themselves with cocaine enabling them to drink far more than they would otherwise have been able to consume.”
He said after Miss Tootle bottled his client, Lundon “stewed on it for some time”.
Mr Driver said: “She viewed it through the prism of her alcohol and cocaine consumption and became vengeful.”
The court heard Lundon’s mum is now looking after her children and hopes she can get the help she needs in prison and change her ways.
Judge Alan Conrad, QC, said a broken bottle was found at the scene and accepted there was some provocation for the attack.
He said: “It was only by sheer good fortune the injuries you caused were not much more serious. It is right to say upon realising what you had done, you did everything to assist and atone.
“You are an intelligent young woman, who when sober is an entirely different person.”
Judge Conrad sentenced Lundon to four years and eight months in jail.
She replied: “Thank you so much, thank you judge,” before shouting: “Mum I love you – ta ra”.
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