A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD child has told how she saw a woman stab her boyfriend in the back during a fight.
The child, who cannot be named due to her age, witnessed Hayley Parrish stab boyfriend Lee Grinham at a house in Brecon on April 5 last year.
The jury, trying 29-year-old Parrish on a charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH) and an alternative charge of unlawful wounding, was played a recorded statement the girl gave to police officers the following day.
Parrish accepts she stabbed Mr Grinham but claims she was acting in self defence.
The child told how she had gone to the house, where others, including other children were present, and Parrish, her boyfriend Mr Grinham, and another woman, who cannot be named, began drinking.
The youngster said a fight began between Mr Grinham and the second woman following a row over his hitting a computer tablet device with his head and hitting it against a chair.
She said the unnamed woman had then thrown her mobile phone at Mr Grinham, which she said he handed back to the woman.
At some point Parrish, who had been asleep, woke up and she and the other woman were involved in a fight with Mr Grinham.
He is said to have struck the unnamed woman, apparently knocking her out, and also putting Parrish to the floor - and repeatedly closing the living room door on her head.
She also claimed that Mr Grinham had hit another child on the head 'quite hard'.
"That's when Hayley stabbed Lee in the back," said the girl who said Mr Grinham had been trying to wake the woman who had been struck to the ground.
Under cross examination Mr Grinham, whose lung was punctured and who spent five days in hospital following the incident, said he had no recollection of the evening. He also confirmed injuries, including a lump on Parrish's head, hadn't been present before the incident.
Parrish denies wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH) and an alternative charge of unlawful wounding and the case continues.
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