A man who was arrested after police followed his trail of blood through the streets to find him has been jailed for 14 years for sexual assault and grievous bodily harm.
Gohir Ayub, 34, was jailed after being found guilty at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Monday, April 8.
The court heard that police were first called in the early evening of December 14, 2018, after receiving a call from a distressed woman.
The woman spoke a foreign language and struggled to make herself understood but managed to say: ‘blood, blood, please police’ to operators. A baby could be heard crying.
Officers attended a property in the Snow Hill area of Hanley, and found a woman who was covered in blood and cradling her baby. She told officers she had managed to stab the man who’d attacked her and they seized a bloodied knife.
A passport with the name of Mohammed Gohir Ayub had been left at the scene.
A trail of blood ran along Etruria Vale Road, Rectory Road, and onto Bedford Street where Ayub was arrested by officers.
Ayub of Barrett Street, Burslem, was arrested and taken to hospital where he was found to have two stab wounds to his stomach, a stab wound to his chest and back, lacerations and a punctured lung.
Ayub was sentenced to 12 years for GBH and a further two years to be served consecutively for sexual assault.
