Overview
- Members of the public intervened to stop the attack and followed Munwar Alsubhi to the Cairn Hotel, where police were alerted.
- Prosecutors said he repeatedly struck his ex-wife’s head against the pavement at around 9am on June 30 near two schools in Jesmond.
- Alsubhi threatened to kill two men who confronted him, according to evidence presented in court.
- Officers later found a knife and a hammer in his hotel room after the incident.
- The victim sustained head injuries and a hand wound, has returned to Saudi Arabia, and reported fearing for her life.