A BLOOD-covered woman fled terrified and naked from her home after her thug boyfriend knifed her 35 times to “teach her a lesson”.
Harrowing CCTV showed Dawn Kerry running for her life after John Forajter “just flipped” during the savage attack at their home.
The 34-year-old was left with a collapsed lung and lifelong scars to her back, neck, head, breast, arms and torso.
Forajter has now been caged for 16 years for the “ferocious attack” in October last year at their home in Sunderland.
He admitted assaulting his partner but was found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court of attempted murder.
The beast said in court today: “I wanted to teach her a lesson. IT just came about, I just flipped.”
Jurors heard how the monster stabbed Dawn more than 30 times with the blade, which had the word “slice” printed on it.
The pair had been arguing and Dawn told the court her boozed-up ex was “doing her head in” so she just wanted to put her pyjamas on and go to bed.
She said: “I got my clothes off but I didn’t get my pyjamas on. I had told him I was getting ready to go to bed, out of his way.
“I still had no clothes on and he was in the kitchen drawer. I heard the cutlery rattling around. He came out with a knife. It was the red knife, for chopping veg.”
Dawn told the jury she believed Forajter wouldn’t actually stab her but the fiend plunged the blade in as she frantically apologised in an attempt to get him to stop.
She managed to crawl on her hands and knees as Forajter continued stabbing her in the back before making it out the front door where she “didn’t dare look back”.
Brave Dawn desperately hammered on doors until a neighbour answered and she was rushed to hospital as Forajter fled the scene.
In a victim impact statement, she revealed she has been left with post-traumatic stress disorder and is self-conscious about the lifelong scars she has been left with.
She added: “I find myself looking over my shoulder all the time, in case he has got out of prison and comes to get me.
“I am frightened he will find out where I now live and will send someone else to get me.
“My life will never be the same as a result of this attack.”
Sentencing, Judge Roger Thomas said it was a “godsend” the thirty blows Forajter inflicted on Dawn had not killed her.
He added: “It involved 30 plus separate blows by you, with that knife. She tried to defend herself and her arms and hands were cut in the process.
“She was, effectively, defenceless against the attack.
“You could have killed her in the attack you were launching upon her.”
