A 37-year-old woman who stabbed a man aged in his 60s more than six months ago will need to be assessed by a third psychiatrist before she can be sentenced, a court has heard.

Sharon Green, of Marbles Way, Tadworth, knifed John Craven in the shoulder at his home, in Hatch Gardens, Tadworth, on March 9.

But prosecutors failed to tell a psychiatrist carrying out a second assessment on her what she had done.

It led to her sentence for causing grievous bodily harm with intent, which was due at Guildfrod Crown Court yesterday, to be delayed until October 29 while a doctor writes a third report.

Rupert Hallowes, defending, said he was concerned that the second psychiatrist “doesn’t have any idea” that Green pleaded guilty to a stabbing.

He told Judge Christopher Critchlow: “It might have been expected that she would be furnished with the papers.

“In any event, your honour is in some difficulty as to what the appropriate sentence will be, bearing in mind one psychiatrist takes the view that this lady suffers from a long term psychological illness and should be in hospital, and the other doesn’t.”