article_snippet: the defendant's mother provided a statement to the court which said the pair had been abusive towards each other and Ali had stabbed Ali wife when his wife ran at Ali.
article_snippet: The court heard how Ali handed Ali in to police the day after the attack.
article_snippet: The judge was also told how Ali was convicted in 2009 for Ali part in a burglary in which Ali and an accomplice forced he and an accomplice way into a family home, gagged a 40-year-old woman and threatened a 40-year-old woman and a 40-year-old woman baby with a screwdriver.
article_snippet: Ian Harris, defending, said: 'Ali family have told me that when His family visited the defendant Ali has been in tears when Ali has discussed what Ali did. '
article_snippet: A letter Ali has written may be starting to point towards maturity which clearly hasn't been demonstrated hitherto.
article_snippet: Ali has set out how deeply sorry and remorseful Ali is for Ali actions towards Ali wife and family. '