Dad stabbed partner in head with steak knife while she was holding their baby

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Dad stabbed partner in head with steak knife while she was holding their baby

Postby dutchman » Mon Sep 23, 2019 3:26 pm

The court was told she also believed he was trying to bite her nose off when he sunk his teeth into her face

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A man stabbed his partner in the head with a steak knife and bit her nose while she was holding their one-year-old baby.

Andrew James, of Joseph Latham House, Riley Square, Bell Green, also punched his victim - with whom he had two children - three times in the face during the brutal attack.

He had denied assaulting and causing her actual bodily harm - saying he had acted in self-defence.

But the 45-year-old was jailed for 27 months following a trial at Warwick Crown Court after a jury unanimously found him guilty.

Prosecutor Naomi Nelson-Cofie said the argument started because James was unhappy with a conversation his then on-and-off partner had been having with one of her friends earlier that day.

When they got home, he questioned her about what they had been joking about while she was cooking something to eat.

And when she told him she had "had enough" and she wanted him to leave, he launched the attack while she was still holding their youngest child.

“She turned round, and the defendant was very close to her, and he told her he was going to kill her," Moss Nelson-Cofie said.

“She describes him taking a steak knife and striking it in her head in a downward stabbing motion with the tip of the knife, which cut her head.

“It didn’t stop there. Still holding the child in her arms, the defendant punched her three times to her face and lunged forward and sunk his teeth into her nose.

“She took the view he was trying to bite her nose off.”

After the attack, the victim's immediate reaction was to get out with her children.

The court was told they fled to a friend's home where the police were called.

She had bite-mark cuts and swelling to her nose, a cut to the centre of her forehead and bruising to both eyes after the attack.

She was taken to hospital at the time, and later had to return to have a tetanus jab because of the bite to her nose, the court was told.

James, who was arrested a few days later, accepted he had hit her, but claimed it was only once in self-defence.

He claimed it actually his partner who had had the knife, and that while he was trying to defend himself he had grabbed the blade and cut his hand.

Miss Nelson-Cofie told the jury: “You have to decide whose account of what happened you accept."

The jury took less than an hour to reject James’s version.

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