Wife bit and scratched elderly husband in 'frenzied attack'
A woman who bit and scratched her older husband and nearly cost him one of his testicles has been handed a suspended sentence for what a court described as a "frenzied attack".?
The 71-year-old was attacked by his wife, 20 years his junior, as they argued and bickered at their apartment in September 2017.
As the man tried to get past his wife towards the kitchen, she had attacked him.
She punched him on his head, pulled at his hair, scratched and bit him, a court heard.?
The man suffered scratches on his legs, hands and chest besides being kicked on the leg while the woman dug her teeth into his arm.
"She continued to shake her head whilst my arm was firmly in her mouth," the victim recalled.
She then slipped her hands inside her husband's shorts and "started pulling like crazy", a court heard.?
Her long nails cut into the flesh, and the victim ended up suffering lacerations to his genitalia to such an extent that one testicle was almost lost.
Once the attack was over, the man?retired to his bedroom. There, he realised the extent of his injuries, as he caught sight of his blood-stained bedclothes.
He made his way to a nearby polyclinic, where he was found to be running a fever,...
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