A violent control freak used a tracking device to find out where his estranged wife was then launched a frenzied attack with a "Rambo-style knife" on a man she was with.
Tanya Hejazi was visiting Fafa Fajjo when ex partner, Afshin Hejazi, suddenly burst in with his face covered in a mask, armed with a blade and intent on doing serious harm to a man he had never met. He repeatedly stabbed Mr Fajjo and also assaulted Tanya in the terrifying episode.
It was in the early hours of October 27 last year that Tanya, 39, decided to visit Mr Fajjo, at a multi-occupancy house on Tennant Street, South Shields. They were sitting on the bed speaking and after around 30 minutes she got a messages from her estranged husband, the father of the youngest three of her four children.