A Somali refugee has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for a "vicious and cowardly" machete attack in which he tried to kill his former partner. Justice Roslyn Atkinson on Tuesday sentenced the 53-year-old to a head term of 10 years imprisonment, describing the crime as a public attack on a defenceless woman who wanted to end their relationship. She said she cried out in fear and tried to run away but couldn't escape the repeated blows dealt by her attacker. "I noticed my head had began to bleed and then more blood was all over my body," she recalled. The court heard she met Samow Ali in Townsville in 2011, with the prosecution describing their relationship as "complicated".

Source: Ethiopian News August 29, 2017 01:56 UTC