€6m lotto winner’s love tried to kill her
‘Lengthy’ time in jail awaits man who also stabbed boy, 11
THE partner of a €6.4million lottery winner was facing a lengthy jail term yesterday after he admitted trying to kill her at their €820,000 home.
Stephen Gibbs, 45, a flooring worker, stabbed his partner of 11 years Emma Brown, 49, in the face during lockdown.
He initially denied attempted murder but then pleaded guilty ahead of trial.
It can now be reported that Gibbs was previously jailed for stabbing an 11-yearold boy after the child’s mum left him.
Judge Richard Twomlow told him: “You have now pleaded guilty to the offence of attempted murder, a serious offence. I ask for a pre-sentence report and I’m told there is a psychiatric report.
You face a lengthy prison sentence, you must be aware of that.”
In 2005 Gibbs, then aged 29, was jailed for six years for stabbing his former lover’s son five times – four in the back and one in the chest – and with such force that he bent the blade.
Gibbs then went outside and told his ex-partner: “You get in here, you’d better see this, you are going to suffer.”
A bystander heard him yell: “It’s your fault... I told you this would happen.”
Gibbs tried to commit suicide nearby but survived.
While being jailed he was described as “overbearing, violent and obsessive”.
Emma quit her aircraft industry job around three years ago after her win.
Cardiff crown court heard she required surgery following the attack at their home in Barry, South Wales, in January this year.
Gibbs will be sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil crown court next month.