Knifeman stabbed wife 27 times in the neck in front of kids
A KNIFEMAN stabbed his wife 27 times in the neck in front of their young children.
Adil Butt, 34, carried out the ‘frenzied and vicious’ attack on his wife of 12 years at their family home in Crumpsall.
He stabbed her as she was as fixing a vacuum at the top of the stairs next to their kids, aged three and four.
Butt grabbed a large kitchen knife she had been using and inflicted 27 separate wounds to the front of her neck, several more to the sides of her neck, head, back and defensive wounds on her hands as she battled to stop him.
The attacker then lied to the emergency services after his wife called for an ambulance, telling the control room that she had stabbed herself and he’d tried to stop her from taking her own life following the attack at 1pm on January 27, 2020.
Butt pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding, but following a five-day trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, the jury found him guilty of attempted murder in October 2021. Now he hass been sentenced to a hospital under the Mental Health Act.
Michael Lavery, defending, made no objection to the proposal made by consultant forensic psychiatrist Ronan Brennan, from Liverpool’s Ashworth Hospital, that Butt should be given a hospital order to protect the public.
Sentencing Butt, of Saxelby Drive, Crumpsall, Judge Potter said the victim was ‘extremely fortunate’ to have not been killed in the attack.
He said: “You had been out with your family and had returned home for breakfast and to take your children to nursery. You complained of feeling unwell and went to your bedroom and your wife was repairing a vacuum
cleaner with a knife at the top of the stairs on the landing near to your bedroom.
“You became angry and picked up the knife and attacked your wife with it from behind, your attack was witnessed by your two children who were nearby.
“Your wife was initially standing but your attack, which became increasingly frenzied and vicious, caused her to fall to the floor. It’s clear to me that your wife was extremely fortunate to survive such an attack given its severity.”