A man tried to murder his long-term partner by repeatedly stabbing her with a kitchen knife in a ferocious assault which almost severed her spine.
Christopher Chandler's gravely injured victim managed to crawl out of their flat and was found in the communal area with the weapon still stuck in her back. The woman was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries and needed multiple blood transfusions due to the amount of blood she was losing.
Swansea Crown Court heard Chandler had stopped taking his prescribed schizophrenia medication in the weeks prior to the near-fatal attack, and the pair had stayed up the night before the incident taking amphetamine and drinking alcohol together.
