A man has been jailed after using a device to track his estranged wife and attacking the man she was with a 'Rambo-style knife.'
Afshin Hejazi, 45, from County Durham was sentenced to 13-and-a-half years at Newcastle Crown Court after he discovered his wife Tanya Hejazi, 39, in the company of a man Fafa Faijo and launched the attack on October 27, 2022.
Hejazi burst into Mr Faijo's home with a mask covering his face, armed with a blade and repeatedly stabbed him, causing horrific injuries. He also assaulted his wife in the terrifying episode, reports Chronicle Live.
He was caged and also given a ten-year restraining order as his victims outlined the horrendous trauma of the ordeal.
Tanya, who had been separated from her husband for three years at the time of the attack, said he had "tortured me for the past 20 years" and threatened to harm any new man she met if she let them near their children after they split
She added: "I keep thinking about what would have happened if Fafa had died or I had.
"I had only been seeing Fafa for a short time so I had not told him much about the past and the threats he had made in the past. Fafa didn't deserve what happened to him.
"He suffered two holes in the lining of his stomach and he is terrified. We are still both living in fear of Afshin and are frightened he will get let out of prison and find us. I was told Afshin said when he gets out he will come back for us and will do a better job and won't make mistakes this time. It's awful and we are living a nightmare.
"If he gets out I want to run away. He has mentally tortured me for 20 years and is still doing it. He is a volatile and dangerous man and he doesn't care about family and who he hurts."
Fafa, who was stabbed four times, four of them to the abdomen, said he had run for his life and added: "I'm fortunate I'm still alive. I feel this man has no regrets about what he has done.
"I have nightmares and see this man in my dreams. When I close my eyes I can see the eyes of this man when he attacked me again and again.
"I feel when he is released from prison, he will come back and do it again. No matter where we go, this man will try to find us. It's put me in constant fear of our lives.
"I think he is a dangerous and aggressive man. I'm trapped in a nightmare and living in fear every day."
Mr Faijo and Tanya have split up after the incident, but he said: "In just one night my dream turned into a nightmare. This man has taken my life. He has taken everything I had and I didn't even know this man before he came into my home and attacked me."
Tanya was visiting Mr Fajjo, but after around 30 minutes she got a messages from her estranged husband.
Hejazi said to her: "Did I fix your car to go and **** your boyfriend. Go home watch your kids crying" then added "Go home Tanya".
The prosecution said during the trial: "She was shocked and frightened at having received the message and couldn't understand how he could know where she was and what she was doing.
"Within the next confused minutes the defendant appeared in that bedroom, wearing a black hooded top with the hood up and a bandana tied over his face, so only his eyes could be seen."
He pulled out a "Rambo-style knife" from the waistband of his trousers, ran towards Mr Fajjo and in a "frenzied attack" repeatedly stabbed him. Tanya said she saw "three or four plunges" with the knife but was unsure how many went into Mr Fajjo.
She added: "I tried to pull Afshin off him at one point and Afshin turned and the point of the knife went in my wrist. The look in his eyes, I knew, I just ran.
"I just ran, I saw his eyes and thought 'he's going to end up killing him and killing me' and I just went to get help. I was frozen. I was shaken. I thought he was going to come after me and kill me. I was terrified to move. He was trying to kill Fafa. I think he would have killed me, I don't know."
Police subsequently found a tracking device on Tanya's car, which had been put there by Hejazi, who had an app on his phone showing him every time the car moved and displayed a real-time location for it. He had also been accessing her social media accounts and even after he was remanded in custody, he continued to try to control her by writing a letter to their daughter, and asking Tanya to drop the case.
Mr Herrmann added: "Tanya said he had directly threatened her if she was with another man near to their children he would kill her and whoever she was with. He said he didn't care and prison would not bother him."
Hejazi pleaded guilty to wounding with intent on Mr Fajja, attempting to pervert the course of justice and possessing a knife. He was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Tanya and cleared of attempting to murder Mr Fajja.
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