Chilling second police arrest man, 47, ‘coated in blood’ after he left lady near dying by hacking her 32 occasions with a meat cleaver – as thug is jailed for 18 years

That is the second law enforcement officials arrested a person ‘coated in blood’ after he savagely hacked a lady with a meat cleaver, leaving her with life-changing accidents.

Lee Sargent, 47, of Stirchley, Telford, carried out the horrific assault at his residence in Culmington on August 1, 2023. His sufferer was left near dying, sustaining 32 accidents to the face and arms throughout the assault.

Detective Constable Becky Jasper, the officer in command of the investigation, stated it was ‘one of many worst instances of home violence’ she has ever handled. 

Police bodycam footage from the time exhibits Sargent opening the door to officers, caked in blood, earlier than he leads them upstairs to the primary bed room of the home.

One officer will be heard mumbling ‘oh my god’, earlier than asking Sargent ‘what’s gone on?’. The footage is minimize quick as police enter the bed room as a result of it’s ‘too graphic’. 

Officers stated once they entered the room they discovered a lady slumped on the mattress with severe life-threatening accidents.

First assist was carried out by the responding officers, who saved the lady’s life.

Sargent, who remained on the scene, was arrested for tried homicide earlier than being introduced in to custody at Malinsgate Police Station.

He was taken to hospital the place he later assaulted a police officer by spitting at them. 

Sargent was charged the next day with try homicide and assaulting an emergency employee, the place he pleaded responsible to each counts at an earlier listening to in December 2023. 

He was sentenced to 18 years and 10 months at Stafford Crown Courtroom on Wednesday, April 10.

The court docket heard the sufferer spent 11 days in ICU a coma and over a month in hospital following the vicious assault.

Prosecutor Patrick Sullivan stated: ‘That is when her struggles started.’

He stated she had misplaced a number of fingers and a thumb and now ‘struggled in every day life’ requiring assist to ‘gown herself, minimize her meals and doing easy issues like utilizing scissors.’

He additionally advised the court docket her ‘new bodily look’ had triggered low shallowness and PTSD. 

Non permanent Detective Inspector Scott Marshall-Bowater, of West Mercia Police, stated afterwards: ‘She was so near dying, if it hadn’t been for the medical interventions of law enforcement officials, who administered a tourniquet on her arm, and the response by the paramedics, she wouldn’t have lived.

‘After 14 years as a police officer, this was arms down the worst accidents I’ve ever seen on somebody who survived.

‘I’m surrounded by an excellent group of individuals and we take into account the sufferer all occasions.

‘In the end, on this case, she didn’t have a voice as couldn’t keep in mind something so we gave her that voice.

‘I hope different individuals realise that if they’re in a state of affairs like this that they should get out of they’ll get out of it.

‘I might urge anybody who believes they’re a sufferer of home abuse to talk to police.’  

DC Jasper stated: ‘We welcome immediately’s sentence of Lee Sargent, as this is without doubt one of the worst instances of home violence that I’ve ever handled.

‘It was a sustained assault, which resulted in life altering accidents for the sufferer. I would wish to thank her for her cooperation and bravado all through this investigation.

‘I might urge anybody who believes they’re a sufferer of home abuse to talk to police.’

Along with 18 years and 10 months for tried homicide, he was given two months for assaulting an emergency service employee and two months in an unconnected little one neglect case. 

He’ll serve these sentences concurrently.