A SPURNED lover lurked in his former partner's garden in the early hours of the morning before attacking her with a garden fork when she returned home.
Mark Pawson, 33, attacked Michelle Race after she ended their relationship and refused to consider a reconciliation.
Newcastle Crown Court heard how Miss Race was terrified and feared for her life during the savage attack which happened after she had been on a night out in December 1999.
Pawson, of Railway Terrace, Middle Herrington, Sunderland, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding.
He was jailed for 12 months.
The court was told that Pawson had taken an overdose in an attempt to end his own life on the night the attack happened
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