Masked husband attacked wife and her friend with knife
USED TRACKER TO LOCATE ESTRANGED PARTNER, BURST INTO
A VIOLENT control freak used a tracking device to find out where his estranged wife was then launched a frenzied attack with a “Rambo-style knife” on a man she was with.
Tanya Hejazi was visiting Fafa Fajjo when ex partner, Afshin Hejazi, burst in with his face covered in a mask, armed with a blade and intent on doing serious harm to a man he had never met.
He stabbed Mr Fajjo repeatedly and also assaulted Mrs Hejazi.
It was in the early hours of October 27 last year that Mrs Hejazi, 39, decided to visit Mr Fajjo, at a multi-occupancy house on Tennant Street, South Shields. They were sitting on the bed speaking and after about 30 minutes she received a message from her estranged husband, the father of the youngest three of her four children.
Hejazi said to her: “Did I fix your car to go and **** your boyfriend. Go home watch your kids crying” then added “Go home Tanya.”
Richard Herrmann, prosecuting, said: “She was shocked and frightened at having received the message and couldn’t understand how he could know where she was and what she was doing.
“Within the next confused minutes the defendant appeared in that bedroom, wearing a black hooded top with the hood up and a bandana tied over his face, so only his eyes could be seen.”
Without a word being said he reached into the waistband of his trousers and pulled out a “Rambostyle knife”, ran towards Mr Fajjo and in a “frenzied attack” repeatedly stabbed him with the weapon.
Giving evidence during the trial at Newcastle Crown Court, Mrs Hejazi said she had met Mr Fajjo four or five weeks before the stabbing, during a night out at Roxannes nightclub in South Shields.
They exchanged numbers and had been chatting over Whatsapp. On the night of the stabbing she had gone to visit Mr Fajjo at his home. She said they went into his bedroom, which was the only private part of the shared accommodation and added: “I was just sat on the bed. He was showing me pictures of his family.”
Mrs Herjazi said she got two text messages, one of which mentioned her being with a boyfriend, and a call from her husband while she was there, which she did not answer.
She told the court this made her “scared, panicked and shaken”.
She added: “I was really confused how he knew where I was. I didn’t know what was going on. A couple of minutes later I heard a bang but I just thought it was someone else who lived in the house, then his door flew open. It was Afshin stood there.
“He was wearing black cargo pants, a hoodie and camouflage mask thing across his face. You could just see his eyes. He had his hood up. He put his hand in his pants and pulled the knife out and just went straight for Fafa. He didn’t even say a word, nothing at all. He just ran towards Fafa and was just stabbing him, trying to stab him.”
Mrs Hejazi said she saw “three or four plunges” with the knife.
She added: “I tried to pull Afshin off him at one point and Afshin turned and the point of the knife went in my wrist. The look in his eyes, I knew, I just ran. I just ran, I saw his eyes and thought ‘he’s going to end up killing him and killing me’ and I just went to get help. I was frozen. I was shaken.
“I thought he was going to come after me and kill me.”
Mr Herrmann said: “The attack only stopped at the point where Mr Fajjo got the better of the defendant, causing him to drop the knife. He then pushed the defendant into a wall, creating enough space for him to break free and run from the house.
“So scared was Mr Fajjo he estimated he ran for 10 to 20 minutes to get away before eventually turning and going back home.”
As she ran from the house, Mrs Hejazi heard Mr Fajjo’s screams. She hid behind parked cars and in a garden and asked residents to call the police.
Mr Fajjo suffered between three and six stab wounds, including one that penetrated his chest cavity and damaged his lung and one to his abdomen.
Police found a tracking device on Mrs Hejazi’s car, which had been put there by Hejazi. He had an app on his phone showing him every time the car moved and displayed a real-time location for it.
Mrs Hejazi later found he had been accessing her social media and messaging accounts and even after he was remanded in custody, he continued to try to control her by writing a letter, ostensibly to their daughter, saying he was going to be in prison for years because of Mrs Hejazi and asking her to drop the case.
Mr Herrmann added: “Tanya said he had directly threatened her if she was with another man near to their children he would kill her and whoever she was with. He said he didn’t care and prison would not bother him.”
When interviewed by police, he claimed the pair were having sex when he turned up, despite the fact the evidence was they were both fully clothed and they said they were just talking.
Hejazi pleaded guilty to wounding with intent on Mr Fajjo, attempting to pervert the course of justice and possessing a knife. He was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on Mrs Hejazi and cleared of attempting to murder Mr Fajjo.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on October 7. Judge Paul Sloan QC warned him he faces a substantial custodial sentence.
He put his hand in his pants and pulled the knife out and just went straight for Fafa Tanya Hejazi
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