An angry husband embedded a knife into his wife's side – penetrating her ribs, lungs and heart – during a row.
Bharat Patel, 51, an accountant at Loughborough University, was jailed for six-and-a-half years, after admitting wounding Taruna Patel with intent. He stabbed her up to the hilt, as she was sitting down making sweets for Diwali.
The couple's 15-year-old daughter witnessed the first part of the attack when Patel hit his wife over the head with a wine bottle.
Mrs Patel, 38, asked the teenager to go and call for the police, before she was knifed at the family home in Sywell Avenue, Loughborough, on November 18.
