38 year old Oluwabusayo Abegunde was found him guilty of grevious bodily harm – and he has now been jailed for 12 years at Manchester Crown Square.
The court heard Abegunde, who makes a living running businesses in Nigeria, had been left ‘humiliated’ by his wife of ten years’ infidelity and sought revenge when she told him the marriage was over.
Sentencing, judge Honourable Mr Justice Kenneth Parker told Abegunde: “An attack of this nature upon a young woman and mother would cause psychological harm in the short and possible longer term.
38 year old Oluwabusayo Abegunde who had discovered his wife had been going out drinking and clubbing with another man after looking at photos and messages on her Blackberry, jealously and repeatedly stabbed his wife after finding out she was having an affair from her phone.
He launched the savage knife attack just two days after Valentine’s Day as wife Esther Abegunde, 33, lay asleep. She had earlier told him their marriage was over and moved into the spare room.
The wounds punctured his wife’s left lung, partially severed a tendon in her right wrist and left her with other wounds to her chest and arm.
As she began to bleed to death Abegunde only agreed to call an ambulance after making her promise she would tell police and doctors she had inflicted the wounds on herself.
He also offered to kill himself – but only made a small cut in his own chest with the knife before emergency services arrived.
His wife was rushed to hospital where she survived.
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