An alcoholic husband who repeatedly stabbed his estranged wife, leaving her blind in one eye, has been jailed for 11 years for attempted murder.

Harnek Singh Badial broke off the knife tip as he stabbed Rajinder Kaur Badial.

He stabbed her more than 10 times in the face, neck, body and spine as her seven-year-old niece screamed as she sat in a car with them.

Badial, of Lucknow Road, Short Heath, Willenhall, admitted attempted murder at a previous hearing.

The attack happened after he phoned her for a lift to Walsall on December 23.

Mr Hugh O’Brien-Quinn, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court the couple had known each other for 13 years and been married for five but the marriage had difficulties almost from the outset due the defendant’s abuse of alcohol.

Badial punched, kicked, and even tried to strangle his wife with both hands.

She had left him.

He said Mrs Badial, 30, was told he was going to kill her.

Badial, 31, then stabbed her phoned his aunt to tell her what he had done.

Judge John Warner jailed Badial for 11 years for attempted murder of which he must serve half.