A Murupara woman called 111 and said she was going to murder somebody, before stabbing a male relative with a butcher's knife.
The 22-year-old, who has permanent name suppression, was sentenced in the Rotorua District Court today to two years' prison after previously pleading guilty to wounding with intent to injure.
Judge Chris McGuire said he had "agonised" over sending her to jail, acknowledging events between the woman and the victim in earlier times had been the "genesis" of the stabbing.
Judge McGuire said about 11.40am on March 28 the woman called 111 from her Murupara home and told the operator she was going to murder somebody, he said. She asked 'can you arrest me now'. Police went to her home but were unable to find her.
The woman then went to the victim's house, taking a boning knife from the kitchen. She confronted the man about "incidents that had occurred between them" when she was younger.