A WIRRAL woman has been granted bail after being charged with stabbing her partner.

Clio Groom, 20, was arrested on Boxing Day last year after Merseyside Police were called to an incident at a flat on New Chester Road in Rock Ferry at around 1.30pm. 

The victim, named as Sam Searson, suffered puncture wounds to both legs and a slash injury to the shoulder.

It is understood that the pair were in a relationship at the time of the incident. 

Groom was subsequently charged with wounding Mr Searson with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Appearing at Liverpool Crown Court today (Thursday, January 25) via a video link from HMP Styal, Groom was told she had  been granted bail after a closed bail application hearing.

Groom's bail conditions include a condition to live and sleep at her home address, a curfew of 9pm to 7am monitored by an electronic tag, and a condition to sign on at Wirral Custody Suite between 3pm and 5pm every day.

She is not to contact Mr Searson by any means. 

On December 23 last year, Mr Searson was attacked in the street in Highfield Road, Rock Ferry, by Jake Duffy and Kieran Salkeld.

Salkeld, 28, and Duffy, 22, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court for sentencing following the incident.

Katy Appleton, prosecuting, described how at around 11.45am in the morning, Salkeld and Duffy were driving along Highfield Road when their vehicle approached Mr Searson, who was riding a bicycle. 

In footage shown to the court taken from a Ring video doorbell camera, Mr Searson was seen running before Salkeld confronted him and pushed him through a gate and into the front garden of a house. 

Duffy then joined the attack and the pair were seen repeatedly punching and stamping on Mr Searson's head after he was pushed to the ground.

Salkeld was sentenced to 27 months in prison and Duffy to two years.

The incident was referred to in Liverpool Crown Court during the trial of Connor Chapman, 23, for the murder of Elle Edwards, as a "pre-cursor event" to the 26-year-old's shooting outside the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village on Christmas Eve 2022. 

Salkeld and Duffy were the intended targets of Chapman and Ms Edwards was speaking to Salkeld outside the pub at the time of her death. 

Chapman was convicted of murder by a jury at Liverpool Crown Court in July 2023 and jailed for life with a minimum term of 48 years in prison.