Corey Ford, 28, was sentenced in the Launceston Supreme Court on Friday. 

Ford stabbed a 29-year-old woman in November last year, following an altercation on a suburban Mayfield street. 

Ford was walking with a group of about five people when they stopped outside a house where the woman was sitting on the front deck, with her mother. 

After being asked to move on, the group then approached the women.

Ford took the mother’s handbag before leaving the property with the group. 

When the women followed him, in an effort to retrieve the handbag, the mother was assaulted by one of the group members. 

While trying to help her mother, Ford approached the daughter from behind, stabbing her in the back with the large hunting knife he had been carrying, and again in the forehead. 

Police found pools of blood on the footpath and at the women’s home. 

Ford was apprehended shortly after the attack, telling police the women had “mouthed off at them”.

He pleaded guilty to wounding. 

The woman spent five days in hospital and continues to experience depression, anxiety and flashbacks of the attack, the court heard. 

In handing down his comments of passing sentence, Justice Robert Pearce said the attack was a serious example of wounding, with Ford in breach of a suspended sentence at the time of the offence.  

“It was an attack with a dangerous weapon in public, which resulted in serious injury” Justice Pearce said.

“The defendant had some misguided perception that he was protecting a member of his group, but he had largely created the situation of conflict, and the level of his response was excessive in the extreme.”

Ford was sentenced to three years and two months imprisonment.

He will be eligible for parole after half time served. 

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