Thug caged for slicing ex-girlfriend’s face from mouth to ear leaving her with ‘Joker-like facial scars’
Siobhan Stevenson, 23, dumped Matthew Grady weeks before the horror attack believing he had cheated on her with a pal
A THUG who brutally slashed his ex-girlfriend's face after she kicked him out for cheating on her has been jailed for 10 years.
Siobhan Stevenson, 23, "thought she was going to be murdered" when Matthew Grady attacked her in her own home, leaving her with a "Joker-like" scar from her ear to her mouth.
The court heard Grady called Miss Stevenson on January 29 asking if they could sort things out.
But instead he called her a “stupid daft cow” and said “I’m coming through your door”, before barging into her Glasgow home and slashing her face.
The mum-of-one told court he ran at her and threatened to “slit her throat”.
Miss Stevenson said: “I never thought somebody who’s supposed to love me would ever do anything like that.”
Grady denied attempted murder but was convicted by a jury after a two-day trial and jailed yesterday for 10 years.
Passing sentence after reading reports, judge Lady Stacey said: “The social worker has come to the conclusion, hardly surprisingly, that you are a danger to the public because of your conduct.
“I am very conscious you went to this young woman's house with two knives and that the injuries you inflicted on her are serious.”
She added: “It is essential you serve a long period of imprisonment because of what you have done.”
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Jurors were shown images of the injuries taken days after the incident, including the 12cm facial wound which needed around 44 stitches.
The court heard she had dumped Grady several weeks before believing he had cheated on her with a friend.
Miss Stevenson told the High Court in Glasgow she spoke to Grady, 31, on the phone twice but during the second call he was “shouting and bawling”.
The nurse said as she was washing her hands in the bathroom shortly afterwards, Grady turned up.
She said: “I saw him in the mirror first then I turned around, he was running towards me with two knives in the air.”
The court heard Grady said “I’m slitting your throat” when he came at her and she tried to close the door on him but he jammed his foot in it.
She added: “I was like ‘please, please, don't do this’, begging.
“I just curled up in to a ball on the floor beside the sink and bath, I just rolled down and thought I was going to get murdered.”
The court heard she tried to crawl to the living room but that was being held shut by her sister Ladonia who was inside with her partner and a child.
Miss Stevenson said: “I was trying to escape for my life.”
Jurors heard she went into a bedroom and rolled on to her back where Grady leaned over her.
She said “I just seen one of the knives, then that’s it - there was blood.”
She told the court Grady closed the door behind her and ran off and she tied a towel round her neck, believing he had slit her throat.
Miss Stevenson said blood was “spraying everywhere, all over the ceiling and away up the wall”.
It was heard that her sister Ladonia was holding the child in the house and screaming.
Miss Stevenson said she was taken to Glasgow’s Royal Infirmary hospital and had plastic surgery the following day.
Jurors were told that when the nurse later removed stitches from her wound she counted around 44 although she thought there may be more.
During cross-examination defence lawyer Neil McCulloch put to her that Grady did not try to kill her.
He said: “Once he has slashed your face, once he attacked you in that way he stopped. Didn’t he?”
Miss Stevenson replied: “When he saw the blood, yes.”
She said she saw "the fright in his eyes" before he closed the door on her and left.
Miss Stevenson’s sister, Ladonia, 22, who was in the flat when the alleged murder bid took place described seeing Grady armed with two knives.
She said: “He was shouting he’s going to slit her throat and she was screaming ‘please, please’, that’s all I can remember her screaming.
She added that Grady was “flailing his arms” at the bathroom door where her sister had shut herself in and that Miss Stevenson was “screaming for her life”.
Jurors heard Ladonia closed the door to the living room with her, her partner Jasmine McGowan and a child inside.
Ladonia said Grady pushed into the living room and shouted “where’s the guy?” but was told there was no man in the house.
She added: “He just looked about and started breathing heavy and shouted ‘why are you doing this to me?’ and ran out the house.”
Asked what her sister was like afterwards, she said: “She had a purple towel, blood was squirting out the top of it, she was shouting ‘he’s slit my throat’.”
Solicitor advocate Neil McCulloch said Grady was struggling to deal with the break up and believed Siobhan had moved on.
The lawyer said: “His recollection is he went to the house to confront a man he perceived to be there, his recollection unfortunately is not clear – he attributes that to the alcohol he consumed.”
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