Twist in pen stabbing saga

2008-11-25 22:05

Cape Town - A Cape Town husband has dismissed as incorrect a report that he was the "new lover" of the ex-girlfriend of a man who stabbed him in the face with a pen.

The assailant, Karel Wilson, was last week sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for five years, for the assault.

The stabbing took place at the Cape Town Family Court.

It was reported that the victim, Craig Crouse, was Wilson's "former girlfriend's new lover".

Crouse said on Tuesday that he and his wife were happily married, and that his wife had never been Wilson's lover.

Wilson was in fact his wife's sister's boyfriend, he said.

At the time of the stabbing, he and his wife had been at the family court to obtain a protection order against Wilson.

- SAPA