Jealous husband stabs wife 20 times for dating another man

UK:  A jealous husband stabbed his estranged wife 20 times in an horrific attempted murder heard by their young children.

The couple's 13 year-old daughter was left tending to her mother's life-threatening wounds after the savage onslaught by Andrew Tuley.

Terrified Theresa Tuley had fled after her husband broke into the family home they once shared in the early hours of the morning.

Tuley, 44, chased her into a neighbour's garden and launched his frenzied attack and her screams woke her two oldest children, aged 11 and 13.

He stabbed her repeatedly to her face, neck and back, leaving her larynx severed and her right ear barely intact.

She was left gasping for breath and her daughter ran to tend her wounds and cared for her as she waited for an ambulance.

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Surgeons spent five hours operating on Mrs Tuley - who also has a seven-year-old child - and medics said her condition was 'life-threatening'.

She has now made a full physical recovery and sat in the public gallery as Tuley was jailed for 18 years after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder.

Preston Crown Court heard how Tuley was unable to accept his estranged wife's relationship with another man and went to their former home in Blackpool, Lancs. with murder on his mind.

Judge Anthony Russell told Tuley: "This is a thoroughly terrible crime which might well have ended in loss of life - which you intended, having pleaded guilty to attempted murder.

"The permanent scars will serve as a very visible reminder to your victim and her family of this ordeal.

"The oldest two children both saw you with the knife. They heard their mother screaming and the oldest had to help care for her mother while they waited for the ambulance to arrive.

"They have to come to terms with the dreadful fact that their father tried to kill their mother."

Det Sgt Kathryn Riley said: "The attack has had a long lasting effect on both the victim and her young family, and I hope that today's sentence will go some way towards helping them come to terms with the attack."