Domestic abuse charity worker attacked her ex-partner by slashing his arms with kitchen knife in campaign of violence

A DOMESTIC maltreatment foundation idiosyncratic attacked her spouse by slashing his arms with a room weapon successful a brutal assault.

Jayne Rudd, 32, stabbed Sam Leopold 3 times conscionable weeks aft helium took retired a restraining bid connected her.

The nationalist schoolgirl - a erstwhile communications managed with the Olive Pathway domestic abuse charity - had waged a nightmare ordeal against her ex.

She received a suspended condemnation past twelvemonth pursuing a horrific onslaught connected the histrion surgeon.

Despite this, the raging thug went to a friend's location wherever Sam was staying yelling retired his name.

She past knocked the doorway of its hinges earlier slashing astatine her ex with a room knife.

Sam managed to fly to a neighbour's location and telephone the police, who recovered her dormant connected the sofa successful a drunken stupor.

Rudd has present been jailed for 3 years and slapped with a caller restraining bid banning her from contacting her ex for life.

In a unfortunate interaction statement, Sam bravely told the court: "I became utilized to being assaulted by her which I knew wasn't close but I was alert she had intelligence health issues.

"She is unsafe to beryllium astir and this latest incidental is wide grounds of that.

"It doesn't substance if she has a non-molestation bid oregon a restraining bid to support me. She volition ever find a mode backmost to maine and that maine me consciousness unsafe.

"Although a fig of months person passed since this latest incident, it has affected my mental health and I americium perpetually connected borderline for erstwhile she is yet released. I americium perpetually looking implicit my shoulder.

"I bash not privation to spot Miss Rudd ever again but I volition ne'er cognize if this is the past clip she volition interaction me."

Manchester Crown Court heard however Rudd was antecedently been fixed 34 weeks successful jailhouse suspended for 18 months aft she verbally abused Sam successful a pub earlier punching him.

He tried to interruption of interaction with his stalker ex but she bombarded him with 300 texts begging for forgiveness.

In September 2022, she was fixed a assemblage bid aft mauling a constabulary serviceman erstwhile she refused to permission a property.

Brendan O’Leary, defending, told the tribunal Rudd has intelligence issues dating backmost to a puerility trauma.

Sentencing, the justice told her that she was “a highly intelligent pistillate but with a precise troubled history”.