Daniel Crow
Wounding with intent *
Sentence
four years and six months imprisonment
Daniel Crow, 54, of Lawn Lane, Littleport, stabbed his 54-year-old wife with a large kitchen knife in an unprovoked attack at their home in Little Downham on 25 January, after their relationship ended. He attacked her while she was at the kitchen sink, continued despite her screams, and held her in a headlock, causing multiple cuts, bruises, and puncture wounds to her stomach, arms, hands, face, and body. She fought back, called the police from the bathroom after locking herself in, and he fled the scene. Weapons, including pepper spray, a flick knife, a metal whip with a bayonet, a knuckle duster, and scalpels, were later found in his car.
Admitted to wounding with intent, possessing a knife in public, and possession of a weapon for the discharge of a noxious liquid, gas, or electrical incapacitation device. Judge Andrew Hurst commented that the attack was utterly terrifying and that the victim feared for her life, despite pleas to consider their children.