A woman who knifed her lover after he was caught with his pants down with her best friend has had a change of heart — and is now ready to marry him.
Candy Lyons, 38, from Britain, can start preparing for the wedding because she has been spared jail after plunging a carving knife into the back of boyfriend-turned-fiancé Robert Goldthorpe.
Lyons said she was drunk when she attacked Mr Goldthorpe, who was caught in a compromising position with her friend on March 8 this year, the Daily Mail reports.
Lyons, who has two children, found the pair in the kitchen of her West Sussex home after hearing "strange noises".
Mr Goldthorpe insists he was just showing off a gardening injury on his upper thigh.
He was left in a pool of blood and needed nine stitches after the knife attack.
Lyons was given a suspended one-year jail term after admitting wounding Mr Goldthorpe.
But after her initial arrest, the judge ordered the couple to live apart.
"We weren't allowed to see each other for three-and-a-half months — it was like Romeo and Juliet, we still loved each other," Lyons was quoted as saying.
"I just love him to bits."
The couple have announced their engagement and a wedding date of March 2010 — one year after the stabbing.
"It was not like Candy to do anything like that," Mr Goldthorpe, 35, said.
"I don't think this would ever happen again … I love Candy dearly and I want to marry her."
Lyons said her husband-to-be kept calling her after the attack to make sure she was alright.
"Rob kept ringing me … and said he loved me," Lyons said.
Lyons said Mr Goldthorpe proposed after she was released on bail.
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