As her controlling partner stabbed her 29 times, Martina Turner realised she would have to put her terror aside to save her own life.
Manipulative Steven Wood turned on the college lecturer, who is known as Tina, at her Gateshead home launching a frenzied attack during which he told her he would "finish" her "off".
But as survival mode kicked in brave Tina somewhere managed to stay calm, persuading her attacker to phone his son and whispering for help down the phone.
