Overview
- Leeds Crown Court sentenced Jake Joe Bamber, 35, to 22 years and four months in prison with a five-year extended licence, a total of 27 years and four months.
- He pleaded guilty to attempted murder, carrying a knife, coercive or controlling behaviour, and stalking.
- Prosecutors said he hid in his former partner’s Rawcliffe home for hours and then stabbed her 22 times with two knives.
- The attack left her close to death with collapsed lungs, and a neighbor who climbed through a window to help was commended for bravery.
- Judge Robin Mairs also imposed an indefinite restraining order that bans any contact with the victim and the witnesses.