I hid in a cupboard after being stabbed 29 times by controlling boyfriend – he should be locked up forever
AN abused girlfriend hid in a cupboard after being stabbed 29 times by her controlling boyfriend.
Martina Turner, 53, still had a large kitchen knife in her chest while desperately waiting for help after Steven Wood, 54, left her for dead.
He told her he would "finish her off" in May 2021 as he stabbed her repeatedly with one knife until it broke, before arming himself with another and later locking her in the house to die.
The college teacher, known as Tina, said today: "He should be locked up forever."
Tina, of Newcastle, said she could sense Wood was agitated before the attack and said she was going out for a while.
She suggested he went on a bike ride or took the dogs for a walk, but Wood flipped and repeatedly stabbed her with a kitchen knife from behind.
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She said: "I can remember him shouting from behind me: 'you go nowhere'.
"Then he got the knife out. I didn't register what had happened, until I saw the blood running down my T-shirt on the front. I turned round and said 'what are you doing?"
The mum-of-three tried defending herself with her hand and arms and begged Wood to think of his family.
But he then got a large Jamie Oliver kitchen knife and told her: "I need to finish you off because I'm not going to prison for you."
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She said: "I begged for my life. At that point I thought, I needed to be really smart.
"I think you just go into survival mode and tell yourself not to panic now because any movement could be your last.
"I suggested he phone his son, because his son is everything to him. He grabbed his phone and stabbed me with the Jamie Oliver knife in the chest."
She then fell backwards, breaking two ribs, as she tried to escape by hiding in a cupboard.
He held onto her as he broke down over the phone to his son, telling him: "I've done something really bad."
Tina tried whispering down the phone asking his son to call an ambulance. Then Wood let go of the knife and left the house, locking both the back and front doors as he went.
She called 999 and paramedics took her to hospital after breaking a window to get in.
Wood has smashed her phone, scraped her car and threatened to take his life during a previous argument.
Police told Tina he had a criminal record but she was unaware he had history of domestic violence.
'BEGGED FOR MY LIFE'
And she took him back after he revealed he had bipolar disorder, as she wanted to help him get better.
She said: "Up until then there hadn't been anything like that. It did come as a shock."
Life improved for the couple but he was getting agitated ahead a planned trip to Europe in May 2021.
Tina, originally of Germany, said: "He got a bit upset because Boris Johnson hadn't made a final decision about travelling abroad. He got himself in a right state about it.
"He hated authority. He didn't like other people to be in control. Everything was up in the air. He was starting to lose control."
And she said he was becoming extremely arrogant ahead of the attack because he had not been taking his medication.
Tina, originally from Germany, met Wood online and their relationship moved quickly. Covid restrictions meant she invited Wood to move in with her.
She said: "We hit it off straight away. He was funny, outgoing and very generous. Now I think maybe the first red flag should have been he was too good to be true. But hindsight is a good word.
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"He brought expensive jewellery, he helped my son find a job and he would fix things in the house."
Wood was convicted of attempted murder and was today jailed for life.
