Clio Groom sobbed in court as she was granted bail after being charged with stabbing her partner Sam Searson.
Groom, 20, of New Chester Road in Rock Ferry, was arrested after the incident on Boxing Day last year. Merseyside Police said it was contacted at 1.40pm, with reports a man in his 30s had been assaulted at a property on New Chester Road in Rock Ferry. The victim suffered puncture wounds to both legs and a slash injury to the shoulder.
Groom was subsequently charged with wounding Mr Searson with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. It is understood the pair were in a relationship. Groom appeared at Liverpool Crown Court today on video-link from HMP Styal, wearing a red zip up Nike jacket.
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Sarah Holt, defending, said Groom had been granted bail after a closed bail application hearing, which prompted her client to break down in tears.
Groom was not asked to enter any pleas to the charge, with a further hearing fixed for March 28. A provisional trial date was pencilled in for September 9.
Groom was told her bail conditions would include a condition to live and sleep at her home address, a curfew of 9pm to 7am monitored by an electronic tag, and a condition to sign on at Wirral Custody Suite between 3pm and 5pm every day.
She was also ordered not to contact Mr Searson by any means.
Searson was the subject of a beating on December 23, 2022, by two men linked to the Beechwood estate organised crime group – Keiran Salkeld and Jake Duffy – which was recorded on a Ring doorbell camera.
The incident was referred to in court during the trial of Connor Chapman, 23, for the murder of Elle Edwards, as a "pre-cursor event", which may have contributed to Chapman opening fire at Salkeld and Duffy outside the Lighthouse Pub, Wallasey Village, on Christmas Eve 2022.
Elle was sitting on a raised flower bed smoking and talking to Salkeld outside the pub's front entrance when Chapman fired 12 shots from a Skorpion sub-machine gun. Elle was struck twice in the head while Salkeld and Duffy were seriously wounded.
Chapman was convicted of murder by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court in July 2023 and jailed for life with a minimum term of 48 years in prison.
Salkeld, 28, and Duffy, 22, were jailed for the attack on Searson in February this year. The footage was played in court, and showed the pair kicking, punching and stamping on the helpless Searson for around a minute, while a woman on the opposite side of the road shouts "get off him" and "there's kids here".
The court heard Salkeld, of Enerby Close, Beechwood, had a lengthy criminal record, amounting to 24 convictions for 30 offences, including assaults, affray, drug dealing and public order offences. Duffy, of Arley Close, Beechwood, only had one previous conviction for violent disorder, relating to a mass brawl outside Anfield stadium in 2020 after Liverpool FC had lifted the Premier League trophy.
Salkeld was jailed for 27 months while Duffy was jailed for two years.
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