A FATHER-of-two who broke into a nurse's bedroom in the middle of the night and stabbed her with a pair of scissors has had his "unduly lenient" 18-month term increased to four years.

Father-of-two Rashid Shioui, 24, of Hurst Street, east Oxford, pleaded guilty at Oxford Crown Court on October 8 last year to aggravated burglary.

Lord Justice Rose, sitting at London's Criminal Appeal Court with Mr Justice Potts and Mr Justice Curtis, accepted a plea by the Attorney General that the original 18-month sentence was "unduly lenient".

The court heard that on June 12 last year a 29-year-old nurse was woken up by Shioui kissing her in her first-floor bedroom at a nurses' hostel in Manzil Way, east Oxford.

She pulled the sheets and blankets over her head but Shioui tried to rip them away before stabbing her with a pair of scissors.

As the nurse began to scream, Shioui ran off, jumping "some 15 feet or so" from a first-floor window.

Lord Justice Rose said the nurse's injuries were relatively minor stab wounds in the arm, neck and chest, but she had needed hospital treatment.

The court heard Shioui had no previous convictions. Psychologists could find no evidence of mental illness and were unable to predict the degree of risk of him re-offending.

Lord Justice Rose, said: "This was plainly a very serious offence."

He said he would have expected Shioui to have received a longer sentence at Crown Court.

Story date: Wednesday 16 February

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