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A psychological well being nurse was left traumatised and scarred after being stabbed by a affected person affected by schizophrenia at a psychiatric care unit.

Alexander Horton, 34, had been admitted to the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend for remedy simply three days earlier than he launched an unprovoked assault on the nurse round 11.55pm on October 30, 2024.

The incident unfolded because the nurse was finishing up her routine nightly checks. Cardiff Crown Court heard that Horton emerged from his room and calmly requested for assist.

However, as she approached him, he put her in a headlock and commenced assaulting her face with a sharpened pen.

The nurse felt the pen pierce her left eyebrow and realised her face was coated in blood. The assault lasted about eight seconds till different employees members intervened to restrain Horton, and the nurse was instantly rushed to A&E, based on Wales Online.

She suffered two cuts to her left eyebrow and one to the aspect of it. A damaged pen, its tip soaked, was later discovered on the scene.

Upon his arrest, Horton requested valium, stating he felt as if the “world was coming to an end” and he was “trapped.” He confessed to lacking his treatment that day, which led to one thing inside him “snapping.”

He expressed remorse for his actions, admitting he felt “horrible” afterwards.

Horton, from Llanarth Road in Llanarth, Monmouthshire, subsequently admitted to intentional strangulation and a piece 18 wounding offence. The courtroom heard he had no earlier convictions.

A sufferer private assertion learn out in courtroom detailed the nurse’s trauma: “I felt fear each time I entered the ward, not knowing whether he was going to attack me again or if he had another assault planned against me.

“Since the assault I’m much more so conscious about my environment, particularly within the presence of male sufferers in case I could possibly be assaulted in a roundabout way once more. It has left me with two scars, one to my eyebrow and one other to my temple. The cuts are therapeutic however I’m acutely aware the scars are nonetheless there.

“People will ask me about the scars and I have to explain what happened and relive the incident and become upset. The incident has become part of my life I am struggling to forget about. I’m lucky the pen didn’t puncture my eyeball. My sight did come back but it left me feeling shaken up.”

Defence counsel knowledgeable the courtroom that Horton had carried out himself appropriately while present process psychiatric remedy, with nothing to recommend he posed a violent risk previous to the assault. Sentencing him, Judge Paul Hobson mentioned: “(The victim) was someone who was simply doing her job, trying to care for and help you. What you did and the injury you caused has had a profound effect upon her.”

Horton was made topic to a hospital order beneath part 37 of the Mental Health Act.