A teenage girl stabbed 100 times by her boyfriend after refusing to fetch him a drink of water survived by pretending to be dead, a court was told. Jamiv Usman, 32, attacked the 19-year-old woman in front of her two-year-old son at her home in Brighton in March last year. At one point he had stabbed her with such force in the neck that the tip of the blade of the knife snapped off. Usman was jailed for 20 years yesterday at Lewes crown court. His victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, managed to escape by pretending to…

Source: The Times September 16, 2016 22:52 UTC