Student ‘slashed in face with Stanley knife’

A student was slashed repeatedly in the face with a Stanley knife by the stalker boyfriend who had abused her for more than a decade, a court heard. Carlington Francis, 38, allegedly attacked Tanya Pinnock, 36, the mother of his three children, near the London Metropolitan University’s library on Hornsey Road. She stumbled into the university’s Hornsey Road library after the attack – covering the floor with blood. Ms Pinnock told Blackfriars Crown Court she had been getting a taxi…