Pianist who stabbed her boyfriend in the groin before dousing him in bleach after he refused sex is jailed for seven years

A gifted pianist stabbed her boyfriend in the groin narrowly missing his penis after he refused to have sex with her, a court heard.

Marlena Meczynska-Shiibashi, 38, from East Sussex, waited until her boyfriend had fallen asleep and then poured bleach on his face.

Then while he was confused and fumbling for his clothes in the dark, she stabbed him in the groin narrowly missing his penis.

Lewes Crown Court heard the couple had been in a stormy on and off relationship for several years starting in 2011.

The music teacher later said ‘I wanted to harm his penis but missed.’ Today she was sentenced to seven year sin prison after she pleaded guilty to wounding her boyfriend with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.  

Although they didn’t live together at the time of the attack they sometimes met up at her flat and had casual sex.

On occasion they played out fantasies where Meczynska-Shiibashi would dress as a schoolgirl and call her boyfriend ‘Daddy’, the court was told.

On the day of the attack in April last year her boyfriend had gone round her her home in Hastings, East Sussex after family members contacted him concerned about her.

The pair had sex but when she failed to climax he left as he had some chores to carry out.

He returned a little later and the couple watched a movie together before the man turned over to go to sleep.

The court heard Meczynska-Shiibashi tried to initiate sex with him by fondling him under the bedcovers but he told her: ‘Please don’t’.

He then went to sleep but was abruptly woken when he felt liquid being poured onto his left cheek.

He told the court: ‘My next recollection was some liquid being poured over the left side of my face. When I inhaled I realised it was bleach. It went into my nose and ear.

‘I sat up straight away and that’s when she threw the remainder of the contents of the glass into my face.’ The victim said he tried to use his phone torch to find his clothing and managed to get his socks on.

 Meczynska-Shiibashi said that I wanted to harm his penis but missed’ during her trial at Lewes Crown court t

Blinded by the bleach, he could also feel warm liquid running down his leg.

He said: ‘My initial thoughts were I had wet myself out of fear of what was happening. It was only when I looked down that I could work out it was blood from a wound.

‘I then looked at her and could see she had a face absolutely full of rage and she was holding a knife. She was coming towards me with the knife.’ Brandishing the knife, the piano teacher again went on the attack as he desperately tried to escape, the court heard.

The victim began screaming for help and in a panic he grabbed a cardboard box to use as a shield and managed to push her off the bed before fleeing the flat.

He said: ‘I was able to leap onto the bed, run across the bed, unlock the door and then her landlord was right outside.’ Police discovered the 50-year-old man lying naked and covered in blood in the hallway of the rented property.

He was covered in bleach and had with a stab wound high on his inner thigh. He was rushed to hospital where he received medical treatment for his injuries.

As Meczynska-Shiibashi was being arrested by police she asked officers: ‘Do you know if it’s in the genitals or not?’ In court she said: ‘I wanted to harm his penis but because he moved I got his thigh instead.’ Meczynska-Shiibashi told the court: ‘I got massively drunk and stoned with marijuana. 

I grabbed a kitchen knife and bleach and poured the bleach in a glass. I poured it on his closed eyes.

The piano teacher told the court she had been the victim of serious sexual abuse and had acted in self defence.

But the court found no evidence of abuse and found her to be coercive and controlling of her boyfriend.

The court heard Meczynska-Shiibashi had a personality disorder for which there is no medical treatment.

Judge Christine Laing KC told the pianist: ‘I find you to be a liar and a very manipulative person who hides behind the story of serious abuse as an excuse to lash out a people both mentally and physically.’ She sentenced her to seven years in prison and four years on extended licence to protect the public.

She also imposed an indefinite restraining order forbidding her from contacting her ex-boyfriend.