A
teacher was today jailed for more than eight years for attacking his
wife with a machete - after she taunted him over her affair with another
man.
David Wing, 56, had only been married for a year when wife Yvonne, 45, began having sex with the son of their landlady.
The court heard the relationship with lover Don Watkins, 37, was at first permitted by her new husband.
But
Wing later logged in to his wife’s Facebook account and read messages
between the married lovers discussing plans to run away together.
Wing was cleared of attempted murder for the machete attack, but is facing jail after he admitted grievous bodily harm.
The court heard he was 'provoked' to attack his wife - who taunted him by repeatedly playing Rihanna song Love on the Brain.
Prosecutor
James Wilson said Mrs Wing was attacked by the machete with a 26inch
blade - and suffered a gashed forehead and fractured skull.
Mr
Wilson said: 'There was a slightly unusual aspect to their relationship,
in that three to four weeks after moving to Porth she had sex with a
local man called Don.
'Her husband had no problem with her having sex with this man, but after time she became emotionally involved with Don.
'He had a problem with this and began checking her Facebook and realised a relationship was beginning between them.
'He couldn’t accept this and the matter came to a head with him attacking her with a machete.
'She was in and out of consciousness until she was brought to hospital having suffered serious head injuries.'
Cardiff
Crown Court heard Wing carried out the attack after his wife taunted
him over her affair with Don by playing raunchy Rihanna song ‘Love on
the Brain.
Stephen
Thomas, defending, said before Mrs Wing was attacked she repeatedly
played the song on a stereo at their home, and repeatedly rewinded an
explicit verse to 'taunt' him.
Mr Thomas said: 'You put some music on didn’t you? Music called "Love on the Brain" by Rihanna.
'You kept on replaying the part of the song "but it f**** me so good. And I can’t get enough" and you started to laugh.
'You specifically chose that song.'
Mrs Wing admitted playing the song on repeat, but denied she rewound it to repeat the particular verse.
Mr
Thomas said Wing told his wife to leave him alone, saying he just wanted
to pack his things and leave - but Mrs Wing was determined to mock him
about their sex life.
Mr Thomas said: 'He wasn’t responding to any of your taunts was he, so you became more aggressive to him.
'You
told him the reason why Don was going to leave his wife was because she
was frigid, and the reason you were leaving him was because he was
impotent.
'You
saw he had a machete in his hands before he hit you. You said to him
"you’re too much of a p**** to use that" and continued to charge at
him.'
Cardiff
Crown Court heard Wing bludgeoned his wife around the head with the
blade after covering her in paint - leaving her with a gashed forehead
and fractured skull.
Wing,
from High Street in Cymmer, Porth, admitted grievous bodily harm but was
cleared of attempted murder after a three day trial.
He was jailed for eight years and eight months by Judge Neil Bidder QC.
Judge
Bidder said: 'After discovering your wife was to leave you for another
man and after some provocation from her which did not justify any
violence, let alone the violence you inflicted, you lost your temper on
her.
'You took a long and heavy machete from its sheath and struck her three times with heavy blows.
'You used a vicious weapon to assault your wife.
'This was a case of repeated assault.
'There was a degree of provocation but none of which justified this type of violence.'
The
judge said Wing’s actions to staunch the bleeding coming from his wife’s
head, performing CPR and immediately calling emergency services showed
he had 'genuine remorse' for the attack.
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