The councillor has some anger issues.
A councillor stabbed his wife eight times with a seven-inch kitchen knife after discovering she was having an affair, a court heard today.
Joseph O’Riordan, 73, who sits on Polegate Town Council, East Sussex, knifed wife Amanda, 46, in the chest, torso, arms and back in a jealous rage.
The couple had been together for 10 years when it was revealed Amanda had been having a relationship with a man named Nicholas Gunn.
Jealous O’Riordan became suspicious of Amanda and started used a GPS tracking device to monitor her car journeys and hired a private investigator to follow her.
“You have made me do this. This is all your fault.”
He then proceeded to stab his wife violently before calling her an ambulance.
The court heard an audio clip of the 999 phone call in which O’Riordan can be heard saying: “My wife’s been stabbed in the stomach. She’s bleeding really badly, she could be dying.
“It was me who stabbed her. She’s lost quite a lot of blood. I want to look after her, it’s me who’s done this to her.”
At least he was honest about it. He said he never intended to kill her. She survived the attack.