A furious lover who tried to kill his girlfriend by repeatedly ramming a paving slab into her head and beating her with an iron, table and electric heater will spend at least six years and nine months behind bars.

Fallon Fraser’s “blood-curdling” screams brought people out of their houses as she was chased around the streets of Pendeford, Wolverhampton, by Israel Mukucha on a quiet Sunday morning.

The victim was lucky to survive the “merciless and relentless attack” but needed 42 stitches and is permanently scarred, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard yesterday.

Miss Fraser, 23, was heard begging for mercy and preying to God during the ordeal, in which Mukucha also beat her with a belt buckle, kicked her and drove the edge of a paving slab into her head at least 10 times.

The violence spilled out from Miss Fraser’s flat in Cornfield on to the neighbouring streets at 9am on January 11. Neighbours and early morning joggers watched in horror as 21-year-old Mukucha tortured his girlfriend.

Prosecuting, Mr Hugh O’Brien-Quinn said an argument broke out between the pair in the flat and Mukucha smashed an electric heater over Miss Fraser’s head with such ferocity, it broke in two and then hit her with an iron. “She ran outside but fell over and was beaten with various weapons,” Mr O’Brien-Quinn said.

“She begged him to stop and preyed to God for protection. Blood was spurting from her wounds and residents heard her screaming and shouting for help. At one stage the defendant was standing over her with a wooden coffee table, he lifted it up over his head and brought it down on hers.”

Mr Sukdev Garcha, defending, said Mukucha, of Owen Road, Penn Fields, had shown “remorse”.

Mukucha, who admitted attempted murder, was locked up for an indeterminate sentence for the public’s safety. But he must serve a minimum of six years and nine months.