Oxford University student, 24, who stabbed her Tinder lover in the leg after taking drugs weeps as she is SPARED jail after judge said prison could damage her career as a surgeon

Lavinia Woodward - a medical student who hoped to become a surgeon - admitted stabbing her Tinder lover Thomas Fairclough (inset left) in the leg during a clash at Christ Church college. Her case caused outcry when judge Ian Pringle (inset right) delayed sentencing and appeared to suggest she might not face prison. He said: 'If this was a one-off, to prevent this extraordinarily able young lady from following her desire to enter the [medical] profession would be too severe.' Woodward returned to court to discover her fate today and wept as the judge sentenced her to ten months in prison, suspended for 18 months. Critics have argued that someone working on a supermarket checkout might not have attracted the same sympathy. A prison term could have resulted in her being barred from working as a doctor.

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