Ex-carer who slashed woman's throat in a car park is jailed for 22 years

Farai Kambarani, from Wolverhampton, was convicted of the attempted murder of social worker Ruth Nayamazana, who he blamed for not letting him see his child.

Luton Crown Court heard 26-year-old Kambarani shunted a car into the back of the victim's vehicle in a car park in Milton Keynes on August 22 last year.

When she got out, he punched her in the head 10 or 20 times before running a knife across her throat.

In the witness box, the 34-year-old victim said he then pulled out a small knife and put it against the side of her throat.

She said: "He moved the knife up and down. I was screaming. I thought he was going to cut my throat. The blood started gushing out."

Kambarani, a former carer for the elderly, was found guilty of attempting to kill Ms Nayamazana. He was also convicted by unanimous verdicts of criminal damage and stalking.

He had damaged a glass panel in the front door of Ms Nayamazana's home on June 27 last year, and between June 3 and August 23 sent messages to his estranged wife, Tadiwa, via WhatsApp and accessed her Facebook account.

The court heard that Kambarani, of Ashfield Road, fled to the UK from Zimbabwe in November 2014 after he had been tortured when arrested.

He began a new relationship with a woman in Wolverhampton. Later Tadiwa and his child moved to the UK and, in June last year, he became angry when they went to live with her uncle and his wife in Milton Keynes.

Two months before the attack, Ms Nyamazana said Kambarani had come to her home and was 'furious and angry.'

She told the jury: "He said 'You have stopped me seeing my child."

Sebastian Gardiner, defending, said: "There was a breakdown in the relationship with his wife and quite acrimoniously. He became depressed and started hearing voices."

Judge Philip Bartle QC said: "You became fixated with Ruth and saw her as an obstacle to you seeing your daughter – there was no justification for that."

Kambarani had pleaded not guilty to attempted murder. He was jailed for 22 years.