32 year old Jamiv Usman, has been jailed for 20 years. 19 year old teenager who was brutally knifed by her boyfriend more than 100 times -
in front of her two-year-old son - only survived by playing dead.
Lewes
Crown Court heard Jamiv Usman launched the terrifying attack because
the 19-year-old woman refused to get him a glass of water. At one point he stabbed her in the neck with such force the tip of the knife snapped off.
But
despite being repeatedly slashed with the eight-inch blade in the neck
and chest, she managed to survive by pretending to be dead and crawling
into an empty bus.
The woman, now 21, suffered two punctured lungs and had 500 stitches to treat her wounds.
Unemployed
Usman, of Brighton, denied attempted murder but was found guilty
following a trial at Lewes Crown Court on July 20 and jailed for 20
years on Friday.
After
the attack in March last year she staggered onto a nearby empty bus near
her home in Brighton, East Sussex, just after midnight, where the
driver alerted police and drove her to the bus depot.
Police
officers boarded the bus and helped treat a life threatening wound to
her neck while they waited for paramedics who took her to the Royal
Sussex County Hospital, Brighton.
The victim's son was found in a distressed state by a neighbour following the attack.
The knife used in the assault was found dumped in a hedge close to the victim's home.
Usman
was still at large until he was spotted in a nearby street later that
day and arrested for attempted murder and later charged.
Detective
Inspector Andy Wolstenholme of Sussex Police said: 'This was an
horrific unprovoked attack on the victim who had to fight for her life
in front of her child who was just two.
'It is a miracle she survived.
'I
also want to praise the bus driver for having the presence of the mind
to drive the victim away from the scene and to get her help.
'The
sentence means Usman will be in prison for many years, preventing other
victims suffering this level of violence at his hands.'
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