hereA text sent to her from Shortman's phone the day before the attack read: "Tell me who the only man in your life is."Now Shortman and Gillott, both from Little Hulton, have been jailed.Before sending them down, Judge Suzanne Goddard QC told them: "You are father and son.
It is a great tragedy you both appear in the dock together in relation to such serious allegations."You are both very lucky indeed that he did not sustain fatal injuries having being attacked with that sort of weapon."The court heard Shortman had been separated from his wife for 'some years', but they had not divorced.She had started a relationship with another man in the months prior to the attack, in October last year.The couple were together and were on their way to.
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