edinburgh · GB
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A 30-year-old woman was stabbed repeatedly on Duke Street in Leith, Edinburgh, in November 2025, as she walked to a GP appointment with her young daughter in a pram. Her estranged husband, from whom she had moved away, approached them in the street, told her he had a knife, seized her by the hair and stabbed her about the head and body. Three men who witnessed the attack came to her aid, disarmed him and held him until police arrived. She sustained twelve injuries, including facial scarring and a collapsed lung, and spent four days in hospital. The couple had married abroad about four years before the attack and had moved to London, where their daughter was born. After the relationship broke down the victim and the child moved to Edinburgh, where he tracked them down — which the sentencing judge said indicated a degree of foresight. In August 2026 the man, 26, admitted attempted murder at the High Court in Edinburgh and was jailed for seven and a half years. The judge described a sustained attack on a defenceless victim, said she could have died and that her survival owed to a combination of luck and the intervention of passers-by, and commended those who stepped in. He was also banned from contacting her for life.
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- Condannato — 5 agosto 2026 fonte
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- victim.age_range set to 30-40 from the BBC report, which gives the victim's age as 30. An accessible approved source (BBC News) was added, clearing the standing readable-source block.