Deborah Stallard, 54, is spared jail for stabbing her husband, 51, for falling asleep while she was talking to him – after he told court it was a ‘one-off’ because ‘she is on the menopause’

/ Mike Buchanan

Our thanks to Nigel for this. He writes:

“Interesting. Yet another knife to the chest. Drink and menopause the excuse. And the husband is forgiving. Now just think if the sexes were reversed, our system would assume he was abusive, in full control of his faculties even when drunk or receiving hormone treatment (for Prostate cancer for instance) and “coercing” his wife into taking him back. And she’d be advised there is no such thing as a “one off” and her belief in this “myth” meant the prosecution must proceed whatever she thought.

In this case the Police did the right thing, treated the case as Domestic Violence, and found their work wasted by a derisory sentence. You can see how even the good cops are reluctant to bring a case if it’s not going to result in much.”

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2 thoughts on “Deborah Stallard, 54, is spared jail for stabbing her husband, 51, for falling asleep while she was talking to him – after he told court it was a ‘one-off’ because ‘she is on the menopause’”

  1. ‘Is it possible her approach to these proceedings is that she hopes you will treat her differently because she is a woman and not a man in the same situation.’

    “We have to ask in the cold light of day would Miss Joynes and those acting on her behalf appealed to your sympathy in that way if she’d been a 30-year-old man called Robert Joynes?’ he asked.

    He also asked whether the two boys would have ‘been disparaged in the same way in attempt to discredit them’ if they had been two girls of a similar age.

    ‘Would the defence on Miss Joynes’ behalf – in our theoretical scenario on Mr Joynes’ behalf – have suggested to you that the girls the were the ones that wanted it to happen?’ he asked.

    ‘It could just not have taken the same lines in questions because it would have been quite obscene.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13421649/rebecca-joynes-accused-sleeping-pupils-seek-sympathy-painting-victim-court.html

    I expect Rebecca Joynes to get off with a suspended sentence at most. But it is good to see the prosecution laying bare the sexism favouring female in the legal system. The simple reverse the sexes thought experiment quickly reveals who is “privileged” in reality.

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