Raging thug stabbed wife's new partner while son battered victim's head with hammer
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dailyrecord.co.ukhammer.The couple were about to catch a bus when Craig Shortman, the woman’s husband, and Dillon Gillott, her 21-year-old son, attacked her partner in the street.Shortman, 43, stabbed the man while Gillott repeatedly hit him on the head with a hammer.
A court heard the victim was lucky to be alive.“Craig Shortman was jealous of the new man in her life,” prosecutor Bob Elias told Manchester Crown Court.The Manchester Evening News reports that Gillott claimed he was acting to protect his mother after allegations of domestic abuse had been made against her new partner, the court heard.A text sent to her from Shortman’s phone the day before the attack read: “Tell me who the only man in your life is.”Shortman and Gillott have been jailed.Judge.
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