Midweek Sport

PIG FARMER TRIED TO RIP MY HEART OUT Sicko who stabbed his housemate jailed for 18 years

- By NEIL GOODWIN

A PIG farmer who tried to rip the heart from a woman after stabbing her in the chest with a pair of scissors has been jailed for 18 years.

Evil Andrzej Chranowski knifed housemate Christine Seymour, 59, and then pushed his hands into her open chest in an attempt to tear out her beating heart.

The 34-year-old picked her up, took her into the rented house they shared and dumped her on the bed saying: “Just lie there and die.”

Ripping

Describing the horrifying attack Miss Seymour, who was conscious throughout the ordeal, said: “It was like a living nightmare.

“I felt a pain and something warm. The next thing I was on the floor, my head laid up against the wall.

“I felt a huge pressure on my chest, like a knee drop, and felt something ripping, like somebody’s fingers were going across my chest.

“I got the impression, as he worked with pigs, that he thought I was one.

“It just felt like he was tryingto rip my heart out.”

Worried neighbours called police who found Chranowski in the room with the bloodsoake­d Ms Seymour.

He calmly asked for a cigarette and confessed, “I’ve just killed a woman with this”, still holding the scissors.

Describing the scene to Nottingham Crown Court Michael Cranmer-brown, prosecutin­g, said: “Ms Seymour was lying on her bed in a pool of blood.

“You could see the blood pumping inside her chest.”

Chranowski of Spalding, Lincolnshi­re, denied attempted murder on February 2, 2011 but was found guilty by a jury after a trial.

He was also convicted of wounding another resident with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.

Judge John Milmo QC, passing sentence, said: “This was a wholly unprovoked attack with a potentiall­y lethal weapon.

“It is quite clear that your conduct has had a lasting effect on Christine Seymour.”

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