Guilty verdict in case of man who stabbed wife

Guilty verdict in case of man who stabbed wife

It took the jury three hours to convict José Caboz of the vicious crime and he now faces a lengthy term behind bars.During the eight-day trial the jury heard how he had stabbed her five times on the doorstep of her Colomberie home with a carving knife and left her for dead with the knife lodged in her back.They had also heard of a catalogue of abuse by Caboz, who the prosecution said had threatened to kill his wife, Maria, before.The jury of eight women and four men could not agree on a unanimous decision and whispered their verdicts to the judge, Commissioner Francis Hamon.

They convicted Caboz (33) of attempted murder, but acquitted him of the lesser charge of grave and criminal assault from an occasion when he was alleged to have tried to bundle his wife into the boot of his car.The defendant will remain in prison until 28 October, when he is due to be sentenced for the attempted murder and other offences.

He is likely to face a substantial period behind bars and could be deported at the end of his sentence.In his closing remarks to the jury, prosecuting Crown Advocate Nuno Santos Costa described how on 18 April last year Caboz had confronted his wife on the doorstep of her home.The jury heard how he plunged the knife into his wife’s face as she tried to duck away from the blow, how he stabbed her twice in the arm as she crouched beneath him and how he stabbed her twice in the back before walking away with the knife still lodged in her, leaving her for dead.

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