'My father stabbed me 13 times - before murdering my little brother', girl, 14, tells court:
Reason to Blow Up the World...
A teenage girl told a court on Tuesday how her father apologised to her before stabbing her 13 times and killing her younger brother in a frenzied attack.
Donna Hawkins, 14, managed to escape the alleged attack but was unable to save four-year-old Ryan.
The jury heard that Christopher Hawkins's jealousy over his estranged wife's affair with a colleague led him to attack their children.
Donna said her 47-year-old father became "nasty" when she arrived at his house last September to collect Ryan and take him back to their mother.
"He turned around and said 'I'm sorry' and he just looked proper weird, angry," she said. "I saw the knife and then he just went for me. I was telling him to stop and he just did it again and again."
Donna said her father attacked her for about "20 to 30 seconds" and stopped when she told him: "I don't hate you."
"I was spitting blood out of my mouth," she said. "I came off the phone and my dad said: 'I am going to kill Ryan now.'
"I said 'No, I can't watch this, I can't watch this,' and turned away."
The terrified girl managed to stumble across the road before collapsing outside the house in Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield.
Ryan, who died days after his fourth birthday, was stabbed nine times. Two of the blows pierced his heart.
All because his wife left him. Normally I try to use local colloquialisms when dealing with stories outside of the U.S. but this time I'm going to use a definitive American phrase. Man up Nancy. Your wife leaving you is a reason to get shit faced drunk. It's a reason to blow all your money at a strip club or on hookers. It is not a reason to stab two of your children. Those wall of spike things you see in the movies, do they exist? Because if they do I think 'They' have a new customer for them.
Two points for each stab that pierced your sons heart, one more point for his death, and another point for stabbing your daughter, and yet one more point for pleading not guilty for five points in all.
The rest of the UK doesn't have to participate this year, England has enough Doom for the entire British Isles.
Nod of Doom to Stephanie.
