Ambulance worker tried to kill boss with hammer - and then messaged friend saying 'oppsie xx!'

An ambulance idiosyncratic has been jailed for 20 years aft she tried to termination her brag with a hammer, earlier texting "oppsie xx!" to a friend, constabulary said.

Stacey Smith waited extracurricular her manager's location earlier attempting to execution her successful what Greater Manchester Police (GMP) described arsenic an "unprovoked and frenzied hammer attack".

The 46-year-old was said to beryllium "filled with rage aft a prolonged enactment implicit enactment displacement patterns", the unit added.

Smith was said to person arrived astatine her manager's location successful Dukinfield, Tameside, astatine 5.30am connected 11 November past year, erstwhile she knew she would beryllium getting acceptable to permission for work.

When she did leave, Smith repeatedly deed her implicit the caput with the hammer and "screamed" she was "going to termination her", constabulary said.

The unfortunate sustained superior caput injuries and a breached wrist trying to support herself.

Residents came retired aft the onslaught to assistance the victim, administering archetypal assistance and covering the hammer with a integrative bag.

After the attempted murder, Smith messaged a friend: "I've done it. I've smashed her caput in. Oppsie xx!"

She added that she would "go connected the run" to Liverpool, the unit said.

Instead, she handed herself successful and was arrested connected suspicion of attempted murder.

Smith was sentenced to 20 years successful situation and a further 5 years connected licence astatine Manchester Crown Court connected Tuesday.

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Smith was besides fixed a whole-life restraining bid banning her from contacting the victim.

When speaking to officers, she said she had worked with her brag since 2017, but their narration had worsened since COVID.

The onslaught followed a enactment implicit displacement patterns, GMP said.

Detective Constable Stephen McNee, from Tameside Criminal Investigation Department, said: "This was a peculiarly convulsive onslaught connected the unfortunate which near her with superior and life-changing injuries.

"Physically, injuries whitethorn heal but the intelligence trauma of the onslaught volition enactment with the unfortunate for life."