A Spalding man who wounded his estranged wife with a knife after she moved out was today (Monday) jailed for three years and ten months.
Richard Admans, 60, of Marsh Road, produced two knives and attacked Emily Admans after waiting outside her new home in Little London, Spalding, on March 19.
Lincoln Crown Court heard Admans approached the victim as she got into a car outside her property.
Noel Philo, prosecuting, said Admans lent into the car after warning her: “You need to come home, and come home now.”
Mr Philo told the court Admans then produced two knives after adding: “I’m going to kill you now.”
“He had two knives with him, a carving knife, and a fairly large kitchen knife,” Mr Philo explained.
Ms Admans was then warned: “It will be quick because they are nice and sharp.”
“She describes the wound was more a cutting wound than a stabbing wound,” the court heard.
Mr Philo said the victim managed to stop a second movement with the knife which injured her fingers.
Ms Admans spent two days in Boston Pilgrim Hospital but the wound to her stomach was able to be treated with steri strips and she did not require surgery.
In an impact statement which was read out in court, Ms Admans described how she still felt fear when she saw a car similar to her husband’s.
“I live in fear of Richard even though I know he is in prison,” she explained.
The court heard Admans, who pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful wounding, had a previous conviction for holding a knife to his wife’s throat in February 2014.
He also pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article and making a threat to kill Emily Admans on 19 March.
Jeremy Janes, mitigating for Admans, said he had been a functioning alcoholic and had little recollection of the incident.
“The injury was not grave,” Mr Janes argued. “This was not a stabbing.”
The court heard Admans had spent the last seven months “drying out” while on remand in custody.
Mr Janes argued there had been some good times in the couple’s 20 year relationship and said formal divorce proceedings had not yet been started.
Passing sentence Judge Simon Hirst told Admans the most serious of the offences was the threat to kill because of the visibility of the knife and his previous violence.
“At the time Ms Admans feared for her life and believed you would carry out the threat you made,” Judge Hirst said.
A restraining order was also made which prevents Admans from having any contact with his wife.
