SARATOV, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - A court in southern Russia's Saratov Region has sentenced a woman to 4 1/2 years in jail for stabbing her partner over mistreatment of her cat, local prosecutors said on Tuesday.
In late November 2008, the 42-year-old woman from the town of Balakovo "decided to punish her partner for treating her cat badly" and stabbed him in the stomach causing a serious injury, a spokesman said.
The woman had been given a suspended sentence in 2007 for attacking the same partner after an argument over the same cat, he said.
