A Telford man who left his partner with life-changing injuries after striking her with a meat cleaver 32 times has been jailed for more than 18 years.
Lee Sargent, aged 47, carried out a ferocious attack on his victim at the home they shared in Culmington, Stirchley in August last year, leaving her close death and putting her into a coma for 11 days, Stafford Crown Court heard on Wednesday.
He told the court that August 1, police then received a 999 call at around 8pm but that operators could only hear “muffled grunts and cutting sounds”.But Mr Sullivan said before they arrived, a delivery driver delivering vodka and Coke had called at the address, and Sargent had opened the door covered “head to toe in blood”.
Following the attack on his partner, the court heard that Sargent was taken to Princess Royal Hospital in Shrewsbury to have a wound on his arm treated, and while there, he spat at a police officer who had escorted him to the toilet. He said there must have been “considerable force” used and he concluded that “her death would have been the anticipated outcome without the prompt and significant medical and surgical intervention” she had received by police and ambulance workers.
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