Girl, 15, stabbed man, 35, in the head because he didn’t buy her expensive gifts
A 15-year-old pretended to fall in love with a man online before stabbing him in the head when he failed to buy her more expensive gifts.
Chloe Coster posed as a 19-year-old before pursuing the 35-year-old victim in 2020.
The teen, now 18, used the alias Hope Morgan to dupe him telling him that she would like to marry him.
Prosecutor Alec Small told Swindon Crown Court on Monday the relationship was ‘contingent on expensive gifts, items and clothing’.
He said that Coster saved the man into her phone under the name ‘Annoying C**t’, whilst he had saved her number as ‘My Hope’ – showing ‘disparity in the relationship’.
On a date prior to the incident, she had met him at a Travelodge hotel and collected £200 before running away.
She later returned to collect a bracelet before again running off.
On January 20, 2021, Coster attended a Holiday Inn in Swindon, Wilthire, to meet him after demanding jewellery, alcohol and sweets.
He paid her taxi fare and took her to his room, where she grabbed a packet of Maoam sweets and put them in her pocket.
Coster then started searching the room for other gifts.
When she was unable to find any, she became angry and there was a struggle.
She went on to repeatedly stab the victim – he sustained knife wounds to his ear, arm and top of his head.
The defendant then told the victim if he reported her to the police, he would get into trouble as she was actually 15 years old.
In messages following the attack, she wrote: ‘You know I’m young, you’re an old man who tried to kidnap me.’
She added: ‘I’m young, you will get in trouble.’
The victim went to hospital for treatment, but doctors informed the police.
Coster was subsequently arrested and questioned, where she lied about her involvement and claimed the victim was a stalker.
In a pre-sentence report, she told the probation officer: ‘If he wants to be weird to me, I will get out of it what I want.’
The pizza delivery driver, of Clary Road, Swindon, Wiltshire, pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent at a previous hearing.
Labelling the teen ‘calculated’ and ‘conniving’ Judge Jason Taylor KC sentenced her to a two-year community order with the requirement to complete 150 hours of unpaid work.
She must also attend 25 rehabilitation activity days and pay a fine of £1,000.
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