Overview
- Judge Martyn Levett called the attack deliberate, calculated and cowardly and imposed an indefinite restraining order.
- The assault followed the victim returning home to find Leggett in bed with a man and a plate of suspected cocaine.
- Prosecutors said he stabbed her eight times, causing neck and chest wounds and damage to her lungs and liver requiring emergency treatment.
- The court heard he took her phone, locked the house and fled before handing himself in later the same day.
- Leggett denied attempted murder but was convicted by a jury in September, and the victim told the court she suffers PTSD, nightmares and has moved home.