Jealous woman is jailed for slashing her boyfriend’s face from mouth to ear after she saw him kissing and cuddling love rival

A WOMAN slashed her boyfriend’s face from his mouth to his ear after she caught him cheating, a court has heard.

Joylene Cunningham, 30, was jailed after admitting using a razor-sharp object to slash Sean Harman's face.

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The vicious attack – which was prompted by Cunningham spotting Harman kiss and cuddle another woman - left him needing 18 stitches.

Harman defended his ex, saying he had been "winding her up" during the incident which happened in York in June 2015.

He told York crown court that he had wrongly believed she had been the one having an affair.

After admitting being violent towards his ex before, Harman said: "I was disgusting - I was horrible. I was awful.

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"I was angry with her - I thought she had been cheating on me in my own bed. I wanted revenge on her. I wanted her to be sent down."

Cunningham, of York, said she saw him with another girl, kissing and cuddling, adding: “I felt pretty upset - I just stormed over and hit him."

She said she punched him but denied having a blade in her hand, and said the wound must have been caused by a ring on her finger, or the glass he was holding.

He also said the defendant had hit him with her fist but the cut must have been caused by a ring on her finger or a glass he was holding.

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But Judge Paul Batty who examined the ring said it was not sharp and he did not believe the pair's claims.

Kevin Blount, mitigating, said: "She [Cunningham] has no previous conviction for violence, it had been an isolated incident, there was nothing to suggest pre-meditation and there was 'some degree of remorse."

Jailing Cunningham for two and a half years, Mr Batty said: "The wound had been a deep laceration in places, running virtually from Mr Harman's mouth to his ear and causing a permanent scar."