Chinese student who slashed housemate in face with knife escapes jail

The attack left the victim with a scar on her face



A Coventry University student who left her housemate scarred for life after slashing her with a Stanley knife had said: “Let her die.”

Congshan Xu had attacked her fellow student in a row over the cleaning at their shared home and the judge said she behaved like an “animal”.

Xu, 29, now of Lower Ford Street, Hillfieds, Coventry, was sentenced to 18 months in prison suspended for two years having denied wounding with intent to cause serious injury, but instead pleading guilty at Warwick Crown Court to a less serious offence of malicious wounding.

She was also ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work.

Sentencing Xu, Judge Sally Hancox told her: “You used a Stanley knife, attacking the face of one of your housemates over an issue as trivial as whether your shared house was being kept in good order or not.

“Your behaviour towards her was that of an animal. It was without provocation, and the fight you and Miss Liu engaged in seems to me to have always placed Miss Liu at a disadvantage – and you brought a knife to that fight.

“Your attitude, your words and your physical assault of Miss Liu would undoubtedly have left her utterly terrified for her safety, if not, at the height of your assault, her very life.

“But I accept everything that has been said on your behalf, and what I have read about you. You are clearly ashamed of your actions.”

She should have been booted out of the university and the UK after serving a prison term. The courts are far to lenient.

29 sounds a bit old for a foreign student?