ABUSE NIGHTMARE ENDED My fiancée left me for dead after stabbing me 28 times

A PASSIONATE romance turned to terror and bloodshed for a man whose lover flew into a frenzy and tried to stab him to death.

Vicious Harriet Sharp, 25, grabbed a kitchen knife and plunged it 28 times into her fiancé Martyn Brown.

The blade punctured his lung and left him just an hour from death.

The horror was the culmination of a three-month campaign of attacks, bullying and manipulation by Sharp – against the man she had agreed to marry.

Earlier this month she admitted three counts of malicious wounding and was sentenced to 11 years behind bars.

Martyn, 29, is recovering well from his physical wounds but the mental scars cut far deeper. He has even attempted suicide and is still in hospital suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.

But he is bravely trying to rebuild his life. And he decided to speak to the Sunday People about his ordeal – for himself and other male victims of domestic violence too ashamed to speak up.

Strangle

love.” Martyn, who was also working as a labourer, and Sharp, who had not worked for a year after quitting her job at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, excitedly began planning their future. They wanted to get a flat in nearby Thornton and they named October 22, 20 2017, as their wedding day. B But Sharp’s behaviour took ama menacing turn. One night last October Sharp had been binge drinking and came home in an aggressive mood. Martyn said: “I tried to calm her down. She went to the kitchen, got a knife and sliced my neck. I was shocked, I asked her, ‘What the hell are you doing?’” The next day Sharp apologised and gave Martyn a hug. He did not get any medical treatment. He was so shocked by her behaviour he convinced himself it was a one-off. But Martyn could not have been more wrong. Sharp, usually drunk on cheap cider, began regularly attacking him. He said: “She’d slap me about when she was drunk, scratch me on my arm and scrape a knife across my leg.”

Anything could trigger an attack, such as a row with her mother.

She would pull Martyn’s hair and try to strangle him. He felt trapped but never retaliated.

He said: “As a bloke I thought, ‘This shouldn’t be happening to me.’

“I didn’t think there was any help out there for people like me. You hear a lot about women in this situation but not men. I was too ashamed to tell anyone what was happening.

“I told them I had slipped and fallen over in the bath and cut myself.”

Sharp’s campaign to isolate and manipulate Martyn intensified when she texted all his friends saying he no longer wanted to speak to them.

When he went out for a pint with his dad she rang to say she had collapsed. He went home to discover she was fine.

He said: “When she was drunk she would call me worthless and scum and