A man who told his wife he had a 'present for her' before brutally stabbing her has been convicted of attempted murder.

Shaun May placed a tea towel over his wife Laura's eyes before asking her to guess what the 'present' might be.

As she lay there, he began counting down from 10, while walking about and muttering, 'come on Shaun', a court heard.

He then launched the sickening attack in which he stabbed her so hard between her shoulder and neck the handle of the knife broke, the Mirror reports.May, 34, appeared at Maidstone Crown Court last week where he admitted to the attack but denied attempted murder.

His wife said the couple 'really loved each other' and had been together for six years before the attack.

On the day of the attack, May had got up at around 5am after saying he had 'heard a sound'. He came back to bed and the couple had sex, after which May told his wife: "I've got a present for you. Would you like it?"

Mrs May told the court: "I said yes and he told me to close my eyes, which I did.

"He told me to lay on my back, which I did and he placed something over my eyes. I thought it was a tea towel."

He then paced the room while counting down, but Mrs May said he never got to zero and she began to get impatient.

She told the court: "I said to him, 'This had better be a puppy', because we had talked about having one, but he said, 'It's not a puppy'.


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