- Marlena Meczynska-Shiibashi, 37, launched the attack in her flat in Hastings
- Police found the 50-year-old man lying naked and bleeding in the hallway
A woman stabbed her boyfriend in the groin with a kitchen knife after he rejected her sexual advances in bed, a court heard.
Marlena Meczynska-Shiibashi, 37, waited until her boyfriend had fallen asleep and then poured bleach on his face.
Then while he was confused and fumbling for his clothes in the dark, she stabbed him in the inner thigh – narrowly missing his penis.
She told the court: ‘I got massively drunk and stoned with marijuana. I grabbed a kitchen knife and bleach and poured the bleach in a glass. I poured it on his closed eyes.’
She added that she had aimed the knife at his genitals, ‘but because he moved, I got his thigh instead’.
The piano teacher is facing a life sentence in prison after she pleaded guilty to wounding the man with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Marlena Meczynska-Shiibashi, 37, of Hastings, East Sussex, waited until her boyfriend had fallen asleep and then poured bleach on his face before stabbing his inner thigh
The piano teacher, who says she was ‘drunk and stoned’ is facing a life sentence in prison after she pleaded guilty to wounding the man with intent to cause grievous bodily harm
Lewes Crown Court heard the pair had been in a stormy on and off relationship for several years starting in 2011.
Although they didn’t live together at the time of the attack they sometimes met up at her flat and had casual sex.
On occasion they played out fantasies where she would dress as a schoolgirl and call the man ‘Daddy’, the court was told.
On the day of the attack in April last year her boyfriend had gone round her her home in Hastings, East Sussex after family members contacted him concerned about her.
The pair had sex but when she failed to climax the man left her flat as he had some chores to carry out.
He returned a little later and the couple watched a movie together before the man turned over to go to sleep.
The court heard Meczynska-Shiibashi tried to initiate sex with him by fondling him under the bedcovers but he told her: ‘Please don’t’.
He then went to sleep but was abruptly woken when he felt liquid being poured onto his left cheek.
He told the court: ‘My next recollection was some liquid being poured over the left side of my face. When I inhaled I realised it was bleach. It went into my nose and ear.
‘I sat up straight away and that’s when she threw the remainder of the contents of the glass into my face.’
Lewes Crown Court heard the pair had been in a stormy on and off relationship for several years starting in 2011
The victim said he tried to use his phone torch to find his clothing and managed to get his socks on.
He then noticed she had a blue bottle of bleach which he knocked out her hand but then realised there was a warm liquid running down his leg.
He said: ‘My initial thoughts were I had wet myself out of fear of what was happening. It was only when I looked down that I could work out it was blood from a wound.
‘I then looked at her and could see she had a face absolutely full of rage and she was holding a knife. She was coming towards me with the knife.’
Brandishing the knife, the piano teacher again went on the attack as he desperately tried to escape, a court heard.
The victim repeatedly shouted for help hoping his cries would wake the landlord, Luke, who would come to his aid.
In a panic he grabbed a cardboard box to use as a shield and managed to push her off the bed before fleeing the flat.
He said: ‘I noticed there was a fairly large cardboard box which I picked up and used as a defensive shield between us and then I used the box to push her away from me and she fell backwards off the bed.
‘I was able to leap onto the bed, run across the bed, unlock the door and then her landlord was right outside.’
Police discovered the 50-year-old man lying naked and covered in blood in the hallway of the rented property.
He was covered in bleach and had with a stab wound high on his inner thigh. He was rushed to hospital where he received medical treatment for his injuries.
As Meczynska-Shiibashi was being arrested by police she asked officers: ‘Do you know if it’s in the genitals or not?’
In court she said: ‘I wanted to harm his penis but because he moved I got his thigh instead.’
Meczynska-Shiibashi will be sentenced in April.