Teenagers who shot woman in head escape custodial sentence

Nov 6 2008 by Andrew Hirst, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

“The offence happened one afternoon in August last year, so it’s felt a long time while this has been going through the court process. I feel it’s really dragged on, but at least it’s nowall over.”

She added: “Ian and I had been talking for a few years about leaving Huddersfield and what happened to me that day certainly pushed things forward.”

Mrs Cornell was in the garden at her then home at Woodford Drive in Waterloo in August 2007 when she heard shots and felt a pellet whizzing past.

She told the Examiner at the time: “There were two boys standing in the wood behind the house about 20 yards away.

“I picked up the phone to pretend to call the police and one of them shouted: ‘If you call the police we will kill you. We know where you live’.

“Then I felt something hit me in the head. It was like being hit by a brick.”

Mrs Cornell removed a metal pellet that was embedded in her head and needed to go to hospital to have stitches in the wound. She also suffered from concussion.