Oxford Student Who Stabbed Her Boyfriend Could Avoid Jail Because She’s ‘Extraordinary’

In a perfect world, the good guys walk free, the bad guys get their just desserts and everyone continues with their lives, safe in the knowledge that justice has been upheld. As has been well documented and oft-lamented, though, we don’t live in a perfect world, and so every now and then the reverse of what we consider just and true will occur. The case of Lavinia Woodward, though, is far from being so clear cut; certainly not one that can be viewed in irrational terms of good and bad.
While some will feel that the recent and much pored over case of an Oxford medical student is in danger of turning into a regrettable miscarriage of justice, others will feel that a ruling in her favour could prevent a different kind of injustice.