article_snippet.sent: Joseph O'Riordan, 76, was found guilty of attempted murder after Joseph O'Riordan wife Mandy, 47, was left with life-threatening injuries to the chest, torso and back at Joseph O'Riordan, 76 home in Polegate, East Sussex.
article_snippet.sent: Ambulance crews arrived to find Joseph O'Riordan lying on a blood-soaked bed and his wife was rushed to hospital, where his wife underwent six hours of emergency surgery to save his wife life.
article_snippet.sent: It could so easily have been a murder investigation and I would like to pay tribute to the victim, Mrs O'Riordan, for the fortitude his wife has shown throughout.''In sentencing his wife husband for the attack in which her husband stabbed his wife several times, Judge Barnes said O'Riordan had shown no true remorse for what Judge Barnes had done, and Judge Barnes was a man who had enjoyed the control over Mrs O'Riordan. '
article_snippet.sent: As Judge Barnes felt that control had gone, Judge Barnes took a calculated decision to attempt to kill Judge Barnes wife.'
article_snippet.sent: Mrs O'Riordan was convicted of attempted murder after a jury took just two hours and ten minutes to unanimously find Mrs O'Riordan guilty of trying to kill his wife with a nine-inch kitchen knife (right) in October last year .
article_snippet.sent: O'Riordan was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted murder at Brighton Crown Court (pictured above)
highlights_snippet.sent: Councillor Joseph O'Riordan found guilty of attempting to murder Councillor Joseph O'Riordan wife .
  