Police body-cam footage shows the chilling moment an abusive husband was arrested for trying to brutally murder his wife, as he told officers ‘I’m not bothered’.
Mark Taylor, 57, went on the run with his teenage son after stabbing his partner Suzanne Taylor multiple times and locking her in their family home in Baslow, Derbyshire, on February 15.
A court heard the attack was so severe that the kitchen knife he was using snapped – but he carried on the ferocious assault after grabbing a second blade.
Taylor then demanded she hand over her phone to him as she lay bleeding, saying he would call her an ambulance.
But instead he callously told her ‘this will be the end of you’ before locking the doors to their house, and driving away with the couple’s son.
Mark Taylor, 57, went on the run with his teenage son after stabbing his partner multiple times
A court heard the attack was so severe that the kitchen knife he was using snapped – but he carried on
Footage shows Taylor saying to the arresting officer: ‘I’m not bothered, that’s it now, it’s a life sentence’
Mrs Taylor tried to call for help through the letterbox before managing to crawl up the stairs where she shouted out of a bedroom window.
She managed to catch the attention of a passing dog walker who called emergency services.
She was taken to hospital for treatment after suffering stab wounds to her neck, arm, chest and stomach.
Automatic number plate recognition cameras captured Taylor’s car moving around Derbyshire before heading across the border into Cheshire.
He was stopped later that day 60 miles away by Cheshire Police and body-cam footage captured the moment he was arrested
Taylor can be heard saying to the arresting officer: ‘I’m not bothered, that’s it now, it’s a life sentence.’
The couple’s 13-year-old son who had witnessed the attack, asked officers ‘whether his mother was still alive’.
He was charged with attempted murder, which he denied before being found guilty on August 15 following a trial at Derby Crown Court.
Taylor, of Baslow, was jailed for 23 years with a with a five-year extended sentence at the same court yesterday.
He was also handed an indefinite restraining order preventing him from having any contact with his wife and son.
Sentencing, Judge Martin Hurst told Taylor: ‘You made a concerted effort to murder your wife, stabbing her four times with two kitchen knives.
Automatic number plate recognition cameras captured Taylor’s car moving around Derbyshire
Taylor was charged with attempted murder, which he denied before being found guilty on August 15 following a trial
‘You took significant steps to ensure she could not secure help and drove away, leaving her to die.
‘If the injury to her chest had been more serious she would have died – you followed through a pre-formed plan to kill by taking the two telephones and locking her in and driving away.
‘It is of course a fact that you will lose contact with your son but that is what you feared when you decided to take this course – you hoped your wife would die and you would then be his only carer.
‘You hoped to be able to demonstrate to social services your love for him and you would have hoped that he would have been put in your care without the interfering presence of your wife.
‘You did everything in your power short of a further attack to ensure that she died.’
The court heard Taylor’s wife told him she was ‘dying’ to try and stop the attack and their autistic son who witnessed it ‘pleaded with her not to die’.
The judge added: ‘She was trapped, dying as she thought, without a mobile or landline handset.’
In a statement read out to the court Taylor’s now ex-wife wrote: ‘I have suffered and our lives have been truly devastated. I cannot return to our home due to the trauma.
‘I am suffering from severe anxiety and depression – (my son) has regular flashbacks and nightmares.
Taylor, of Baslow, was jailed for 23 years with a with a five-year extended sentence
He was handed an indefinite restraining order preventing him from having any contact with his wife and son
‘He is scared in school during cookery classes because there are knives there.
‘He cries at the situation we are in and says his dad has ruined his life and says he will never forget what he saw.
‘I cannot believe he left me on the floor dying after more than 30 years of marriage.’
Temporary Detective Constable Amber Holmes, of Derbyshire Police, said after the case: ‘This was a ferocious and sustained attack by Taylor on his wife who genuinely feared she was going to die.
‘After this incident she disclosed to police that she had been suffering from domestic abuse at the hands of her husband for around 40 years including a previous incident involving a knife.
‘It’s clear from the history and the actions of Taylor on this day that he posed a very real threat to his wife.
‘I am pleased therefore that the judge has recognised the danger posed by Taylor with this extended sentence.’
