Overview

• Muhammad Khan, 53, received 27½ years in prison for attempted murder, plus five years on licence and a lifelong restraining order.
• Prosecutors said the victim suffered 15 stab wounds, with deep injuries to her neck, hand and abdomen, and was also struck with a hammer and throttled with an exercise band.
• Witnesses reported Khan dumping a bag containing a Stanley knife, spare blades, bleach and white spirit, which the judge described as a kit to attack and to clean up.
• The assault ended when the woman’s family arrived; her brother intervened and relatives tried to confine Khan in a garage before he broke free and was later arrested.
• In custody he asked about sentences for murder, the defence called his conduct grotesque, and the victim’s statement described lasting trauma and requested he declare a divorce.