A HUSBAND stabbed four times by his drunken wife who smashed a glass ashtray over his head yesterday confessed: I still love her and I want her back.

Derek Burns was so badly injured in the frenzied attack, in which she also tried to gouge his eyes out, that police feared he would die.

Jonathan Duffy, defending, said there was a history of violence on both sides but Mrs Burns was sorry for her behaviour.

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