Man jailed for stabbing his pregnant ex-partner

Published on Wednesday 1 February 2012 01:06

A MAN has been jailed for trying to murder the mother of his child while she was pregnant with another man’s baby.

Steven Ross repeatedly stabbed Sarah Massie with a kitchen knife after he started a row at her flat in Aberdeen’s Cummings Park Circle.

Ross, 37, took Ms Massie to hospital after the knife attack – but she was too terrified to tell police that the man by her side was actually her attacker.

Yesterday at the High Court in Aberdeen, Ross was jailed for six years and ten months after admitting trying to kill Ms Massie.

Lord Uist told Ross he was a “menace” who had committed a serious and violent crime.

He said: “In the knowledge that she was then pregnant, you repeatedly punched her and, after fetching a knife from the kitchen, repeatedly struck her on the stomach with a knife, all to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and the danger of her life.”

Advocate depute Neil Beardmore said Ross had been in a relationship with Ms Massie for 11 years and they had a child together. They had split up a few months earlier, but despite her pregnancy had begun spending time together again.

Ms Massie had suffered two stab wounds to her upper abdomen – one piercing her bowel twice. It was only after she reached A&E, still accompanied by Ross, that she found the courage to reveal who her attacker was to medical staff. Ross was arrested at the hospital.

The court heard Ms Massie, whose wounds were described as life-threatenin, later gave birth to a boy at 38 weeks.