Karenna Leanne Morley is charged with wounding over allegedly slashing her partner with a kitchen knife

A mother is accused of slashing her former long-term partner with a kitchen knife as he slept – ‘he felt this pain to his left wrist and saw blood spurting from his wound’.

A Bucasia mother accused of slashing her former long-term partner with a kitchen knife while he slept allegedly told police: “I want to see the c*** dead … but I didn’t try to kill him”.

The man alleged he woke up to a pain on his wrist and “saw blood spurting from his wound”, Mackay Magistrates Court heard.

Police arrested and charged Karenna Leanne Morley, 48, with unlawful wounding on December 12.

During a bail application on Monday morning, the court heard the pair had argued the day before the incident over alleged conduct the man had been involved in.

However, what this alleged conduct involved was not aired in court. When Magistrate Damien Dwyer referred to it he just said, “I don’t want to embarrass her.”

Karenna Leanne Morley is charge with wounding over an alleged incident with her former partner.

The court heard tensions appeared to ease as the pair went to sleep at the man’s Gentle Ave home in Bucasia and the next morning about 10am while he was laying in bed “he felt this pain to his left wrist and saw blood spurting from his wound”.

ATSILS defence solicitor Grace Sharma, for Ms Morley, said her client had a different version and labelled it a “he said/she said type of scenario” to which Mr Dwyer disagreed.

“The indisputable fact is that he got slashed on his arm,” Mr Dwyer said.

“He’s saying I was laying in bed and all of a sudden I got slashed.”

Mr Dwyer said it was “an odd situation”.

“You’d wonder why someone would take a kitchen knife into bed with him,” he said.

“Her story is that he took this knife to bed to slash his own wrists some time when he was lying asleep.”

Mr Dwyer said Ms Morley also allegedly told police “I want the c*** dead”.

Police allege the 48 year old allegedly slashed her former partner’s wrist as he slept.

“But to be fair to her, she followed that with, but I didn’t … try to kill him,” Mr Dwyer said.

Ms Sharma argued her client’s first comments to police may have been “in the heat of the moment”.

“My client has instructed me that she has broken up with him,” Ms Sharma said, adding she was instructed Ms Morley did not want to see her former partner or have anything to do with him.

The court heard she had two young children who needed supervision and also had a job lined up to start in two weeks.

Ms Sharma also argued in the couple’s four-year relationship there had been no violence.

“This is a very serious offence, it involved a knife … the evidence against her is strong,” Mr Dwyer said.

“It seems to me there’s some sort of predication that for whatever reason she was … very cranky with him at the time because of what she thought his activities were immediately before coming home.”

The court heard Ms Morley could be looking at a substantial penalty if found guilty.

Mr Dwyer found cause was not shown and said Ms Morley was an unacceptable risk of committing further offences. Bail was denied.

Matters were adjourned to early 2022.