TWO women have been found guilty of breaking into a woman’s flat and attacking her with a knife and bleach.

Kathryn Llewellyn, 43, of Golwg y Mynydd in Godrergraig, and Teresa Morgan-Peters, 45, of Dolfain in Ystradgynlais, were accused of attacking a woman in the early hours of November 1 last year on Pen-Y-Bryn in Ystradgynlais.

The victim was left with multiple severe knife wounds – and was taken to hospital.

Both defendants had denied charges of burglary, wounding with intent, and having an article with a blade or point.

Morgan-Peters had pleaded guilty to a lesser offence of unlawful wounding as an alternative to wounding with intent. She also denied a further offence of having an article with a blade or point.

The jury returned after around four-and-a-half hours of deliberations, and found both defendants guilty of burglary, wounding with intent, and having an article with a blade or point.

Morgan-Peters was found not guilty of the further charge of having an article with a blade or point.

During the trial, the jury heard that the complainant had messaged Llewellyn’s partner, Gregory Morgan, after she heard Llewellyn had been posting about her on social media.

Morgan-Peters gave evidence that the exchange of messages “bothered” Llewellyn. Llewellyn came over and drunk at Morgan-Peters’ home – which was “around 150 yards” from the complainant’s – with Mr Morgan on the evening of October 31. Morgan-Peters described Llewellyn as “kicking off” about the complainant.

The complainant reported having eight phone calls from a withheld number that night between 1.13am and 1.29am. She reported the first of the calls were silent when she answered, but there was laughter – “like clowns cackling” – in the later calls.

Subsequent analysis of Morgan-Peters’ phone showed the calls were from her – although she had deleted the logs.

The jury was played the complainant’s interview with police officers, conducted from her hospital bed.

She said she saw two figures coming down the hallway in her flat after 1am in “clown masks”.

“She started coming at me with a Stanley knife,” she said.

“Then the other one came at me and I had bleach thrown at me.”

Prosecutor Robin Rouch said the complainant suffered knife injuries to her face, neck, arm, back, and thigh.

The complainant managed to rip the mask of one of her assailants and escape to a friend’s home.

The neighbour, Mandy Moore, told police: “I saw a lot of injuries and blood.”

She said she could smell bleach on the complainant, and her black pyjama top had begun to discolour.

Llewellyn and Morgan-Peters were arrested on November 1.

Llewellyn said she was asleep at the time of the attack, and said she had never been to the complainant’s flat.

However, her DNA – along with Morgan-Peters’ – was found on a panda mask recovered from the flat, as well as on a plastic bottle police believe the bleach was carried in.

Police found that messages between Llewellyn and Mr Morgan – believed to have been about the complainant – had been deleted from her phone.

Four internet searches for the question-and-answer website Quora were found on Llewellyn’s phone from around 3am on November 1.

These were: “How long will fingerprints last on a plastic surface”; “How long will fingerprints last on a plastic bag”; “How long do fingerprints last on a plastic bag”; and “How long do fingerprints last on a plastic surface”.

David Leathley, in mitigation, said the Llewellyn's phone did not have a passcode, and told the jury that his client insisted she was “set up”.

Mr Leathley said the two objects that forensically linked Llewellyn to the scene – the mask and the bottle – were “portable objects”, which he said “does not necessarily put [Llewellyn] in the location”.

Nicola Powell told the jury her client, Morgan-Peters, “had no idea as to what Kathryn Llewellyn’s intentions were that night”.

“She stupidly went with Kathryn Llewellyn to the complainant’s address to have it out with her,” she said.  

Morgan-Peters answered “no comment” at her first two police interviews, but during the third, she told police she heard Llewellyn leave her house. She followed Llewellyn, taking her son’s Hallowe’en mask as she “didn’t want her to think I’m part of this”.

She told police that after spotting Llewellyn had a knife, she pushed her, allowing the complainant to get away – something the complainant refuted in her evidence.

Judge Geraint Walters said the pair will be sentenced on June 19.

He expressed his “sincere thanks” to the jury for their work throughout the trial – which has been plagued by delays transporting the defendants from HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire to Swansea.

“Doing this isn’t easy,” he said to them. “And that’s why we couldn’t do this without you.

“That wasn’t an easy case to try.”