Husband who stabbed wife 17 times is jailed for 19 years

Husband who stabbed wife 17 times then told police she inflicted wounds herself because she felt isolated from family in Romania during lockdown is jailed for 19 years for attempted murder

• Zef Gjoni, 28, has been jailed for 19 years for stabbing his wife 17 times in 2020
• The Albian launched a violent attack on Denisa Maria Fuli with two kitchen knives
• He told police the wounds were self-inflicted, but she lived and said it was Gjoni

A husband who stabbed his wife 17 times and asked her ‘have you not died yet?’ as she lay in a pool of her own blood has been jailed.

Zef Gjoni, 28, told police the severe wounds on Denisa Maria Fuli were self-inflicted, and she did it because she missed her family in Romania during the first lockdown.

The Albanian also tried to smother Ms Fuli during the horrific attack at their home in south London on April 1 2020.

Gjoni left her on the bathroom floor with a collapsed lung and then put a duvet over her head and asked her if she had died.

Zef Gjoni (pictured), 28, was jailed for 19 years today after being found guilty of attempted murder of his wife Denisa Maria Fuli, after he stabbed her 17 times in their London home

She pleaded for Gjoni to stop and call an ambulance.

He then dialled 999 to tell the operator that he and his wife had argued and she had stabbed herself in the heart two or three times.

Ms Fuli was able to tell police and paramedics through a Romanian interpreter that her husband had carried out the attack.

Gjoni, of Parchmore Road, Thornton Heath, denied but was convicted of attempted murder by a jury at Croydon Crown Court.

He was jailed for 19 years with a further five years on extended licence.

Thea Viney, from the CPS, said: ‘This was a senseless and violent attack inside a marital home.

Croydon Crown Court (pictured) heard how Gjoni told police that Ms Fuli had cut herself because she missed her family in Romania

‘Zef Gjoni armed himself with two kitchen knives before launching an unprovoked attack on his own wife just because she wanted to speak to her family. The victim who has since left the country, is lucky to be alive.

‘During police interview Gjoni told officers that the Coronavirus lockdown had upset his wife because she was being separated from her family in Romania. He told them she had been cutting herself in the bathroom, but the jury was able to see through this blatant lie.

‘The prosecution case included medical evidence and statements from the victim who had to spend two weeks in hospital recovering from her stab wounds.

‘The CPS is absolutely committed to securing justice for victims of domestic abuse and will always prosecute these cases where there is the evidence to do so.’

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