A young Dunedin mother who was stabbed and almost killed in her home believes judo lessons she attended with her father saved her life.
The 26-year-old nurse struggled throughout the attack by 21-year-old Michael John Chilcott, who came to the door of her Duncan St flat asking for a drink of water just before 9am on November 19.
He hit her from behind with his coffee mug, punched her, pushed her into her bedroom and told her to be quiet or he would hurt her young daughter, then pulled off her pyjama trousers and indecently assaulted her.
He pulled out a pair of scissors and stabbed her about the face and neck then tried to choke her and smother her with a pillow.
In a five-page victim impact statement she read at the sentencing hearing in the Dunedin District Court yesterday, the woman spoke of the devastation the attack had caused to her family and to her partner.
She and her father were very close. He was upset, angry and struggling to deal with the situation. He used to take her to judo lessons and ''we credit [that] for saving my life'', she said.
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