A jealous and controlling woman nearly killed her boyfriend when she severed his artery with a knife because she thought he was cheating on her.
Janet Kearns then cleaned the blade, put it back into the knife block and walked away, leaving her victim bleeding to death outside his flat.
A key artery in his right arm had been cut through but his life was saved thanks to the actions of paramedics and doctors. A court heard Kearns, who had two children from a previous relationship and worked as a cleaner, terrorised her partner for almost two years.
He had previously threatened to call police, but she had told him: "You'll be dead before they get here." When he finally dumped the 47-year-old, she went to his third-floor flat in Wythenshawe,
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