A WOMAN has been jailed for 27 months after stabbing a man three times in a drunken loss of temper.

Jade Proctor, 23, was yesterday beginning her third prison sentence in nine months for attacking the same victim - her 54-year-old drinking companion, Ian Butterfield.

Proctor, of Lister Avenue, Manningham, Bradford, stabbed him in the back and neck only hours after she was released from jail for kicking him in the face, Bradford Crown Court heard.

In May last year, she was locked up for stabbing Mr Butterfield in the back in a drunken row at his home in Upper George Street, Wibsey. She pleaded guilty to unlawfully wounding him on April 9 and was jailed for five months.

Proctor was freed on June 26 and four days later, she kicked and slapped Mr Butterfield and received a 16 month prison sentence.

Prosecutor Duncan Ritchie said that she was let out on October 22 and went to Mr Butterfield's home that evening.

At 1am, he phoned for an ambulance after suffering three stab wounds to his neck and back.

Proctor rang the police soon afterwards, saying: "My head just went west under the influence of alcohol. I stabbed him loads of times."

She added: "It's disgusting, what I have done."

Mr Butterfield said Proctor smashed a glass and kicked doors at his home.

He was watching television in the living room when she came up behind him and attacked him.

Mr Ritchie said Proctor used a small kitchen knife to stab Mr Butterfield.

She admitted unlawfully wounding him and common assault on a police officer she kicked on the leg.

A breath test at the police station revealed she was more than five times the legal alcohol limit to drive a car.

Proctor had 21 previous convictions for 37 offences.

Her barrister, Anne-Marie Hutton, said: "It is really not clear what happened on that night at all. Both individuals were heavily intoxicated and perhaps encouraging each other to drink more. Alcohol, in essence, took over."

Proctor had been in custody since October and was engaging well with courses in prison.

Judge Robert Bartfield made an indefinite restraining order banning Proctor from contacting Mr Butterfield.

She spent the evening getting drunk with Mr Butterfield, a fellow alcoholic, before stabbing him with "a small but potentially lethal kitchen knife."

"He was fortunate that you did not sever an artery in his neck or something of that kind," the judge said.

"This is the third attack on him in a year and the second with a sharp weapon."

But Proctor had owned up, was genuinely remorseful, and young enough to turn her life around.