Ex-Army Major who slashed ex-wife’s throat with Stanley knife in ‘chilling and vicious’ attack over divorce settlement is jailed for 25 years

An old army expert who cut his ex -wife’s throat on a bitter divorce settlement was put into prison for 25 years today.

51 -year -old Jonathan Creak lasted more than 140 miles to confront the old Rhiannon on a country lane.

Later, while screaming, he started the attack with a Stanley knife ‘creepy and vicious’: ‘You need to die’.

MS Creak experienced serious wounds to the trachea, neck, back, nipple and leg, which needed emergency surgery.

When Creak was arrested and later on a busy pair of highway, he was ordered to reach out outside his minibus, the police showed him that the images of the body laughed and told the officers: ‘You do not do much action’.

The dog defendant claimed that he had no memory about the incident that he said he was triggered when he went to confront his ex -lover for his share of his retirement after his ten -year marriages were broken down.

However, after a hearing, he was sentenced to murder attempted and grieving physical damage.

Today, the judge Katharine Moore, who has been in jail for 25 years and has a long license for four years, admitted that the defendant was probably exposed to mental health problems, including post -traumatic stress disorder symptoms, depression and anxiety.

However, as a defense, ‘provocation’ could not trust and ‘understand the consequences of your actions’ he said.

‘Obviously you contain hatred and motivated with a sense of anger.’

The length of the sentence took into account the risk of “women who have a relationship, especially women and more specifically, who you think you were injustice”.

In a statement of a victim’s effect on the court, Creak said: ‘The emotional effect of my attempt on my life was unthinkable for me and my family.

‘TSSB and hyper-reapping were diagnosed. Since July, I haven’t slept for more than a few hours a day, I’m afraid of being alone or at my wife’s house, the house I’m followed. ‘

He described his ex -husband as a ‘calculated and very dangerous man’.

During the hearing, Norwich Crown Court, Afghanistan veteran on July 6 last year Hardwick, Norfolk’daki ex -lover’s on the way to the horses of a friend’s horses ‘horses over again’ meat to bend a stanley knife to bend over and over again.

Cambridge trained lady Creak realized that he had watched a white minibus on the A140 path from Norwich to the south and continued to queue him on his way back to a lane in Hardwick.

‘It was increasingly anxious’ and withdrew from the edge of the road and saw his ex -husband’s company logo next to the minibus.

Oxfordshire, Woodstock’daki deported Creak, doubled and doubled and car parked his van ‘nose’ nose.

Prosecutor Claire Matthews, then both came out of their vehicles, and ‘surprisingly surprising’ about why Mrs. Creak followed her before she produced her knife.

Greak looks at the camera because he was arrested for stabbing his ex -wife ‘again and again’ and was taken to a police station.

“ “ He remembered something as if he was opening a metallic click. He told him he had nothing left to lose. His instinct was running, but he said he could catch him, Mat Matthews said to the jury.

‘There was a creepy and vicious attack on Rhiannon Creak on the lane of that country.’

Creak’s wounds were described as ‘grave’ and ‘serious’ and contained a eight -inch cut around his neck and a five -inch wound under his chest. He needed blood transfusion and emergency surgery on the pipe and neck of the left.

Creak called the fitness instructor partner Sophie Carter – with three younger children – after escaping from the scene in the minibus, he said he killed Rhiannon ‘.

An officer came to his house and when Creak called again, he took the phone and said, “I did. I killed my old wife. ‘

Creak said he was in the Bedford region on his way home and he was withdrawn and arrested on suspicion of murder attempt.

In a prepared statement given to the police, he complained about how he divorced his ex -wife in 2022, but ‘since then he did not accept any settlement’.

As a result of his new relationship, he added that he was ‘even more painful’: ‘I believe that he tried to destroy me after giving him everything.’

Creak’s partner Sophie Carter, when Creak called and promised the effect, there was a police officer: ‘I did this. I killed my ex -wife. ‘

Dramatic Police Bodycam images showed Creak while leaving the minibus as a officer pointed to a Taser.

The suspect was ordered to cross his legs as his arms reached out and the officers approached him with clamps.

Creak insisted that he did not intend to kill or seriously injure him, and tried to answer him.

However, Matthews told the jury members: ‘Sophie Carter tells some internal issues in the period that caused prosecution to really get angry.

‘The prosecution says Mr. Creak aims to kill Rhiannon that morning.’

During the conviction today, Creak had a discussion with Mrs. Carter and broke her ribs by pushing her towards a wall.

In 2006, Mrs. Creak met with the defendant as a student at the University of Cambridge at the University of Cambridge and met with the defendant and met as an instructor for royal electricity and mechanical engineers.

They moved together and decided to get married when they were sent to Belize with Ordu, the wedding took place in July 2008.

He returned from Belize in 2011 and wanted to train as a physiotherapist, so he was able to work on different bases where he was published, but he was reluctant to support him financially and started divorce in 2012.

Although Nisi was sent to Germany and then to Afghanistan, they came together, but in 2018 Wattisham left again in the married neighborhoods at the Apache helicopter base in Suffolk.

Rhiannon Creak told us how he ‘wandering around’ because he was attacked by his ex -husband screaming: ‘You have to die.’

He explained the attack and said: ‘I took something out of his right pocket and got the impression that he had a kind of weapon with a blue or black handle and heard a metallic noise like scraping. He said, “I have nothing to lose,” he said.

As Creak attacked him, he was screaming: ‘You could just accept the settlement.’

Creak, a 43 -year -old who has no contact with him since 2019, said, ‘You have to die, you have to die, “he said. I could not make noise anymore. He was just blood and foaming. ‘

Following a series of mental health assessments, Creak, who was discharged medically from the army in October 2021 after 29 years of service, admitted that he had a winged article before the hearing.

Detective Inspector Duncan Woodhams said after the sentence: ‘This was a terrible ordeal for Rhiannon and his family. It had a deep effect on physical and psychological welfare.

‘Nothing will delete Rhiannon’s experience, but today we hope that the perpetrator of the sentence will serve some justice for its unthinkable actions.’