Farm worker jailed for 18 years for stabbing housemate
A FARM worker who tried to rip the heart from a woman after horrifically stabbing her in the chest has today been jailed for 18 years.
Andrzej Chranowski (34) stabbed night shift worker Christine Seymour (59), while she was talking to a mate on her mobile phone outside her home in Spalding. He then pushed his hands inside her chest in an apparent attempt to tear out her heart.
Police, alerted by other residents in the shared property, arrested him inside Ms Seymour’s room.
Michael Cranmer-Brown, prosecuting, said that when officers entered the room Chranowski calmly asked for a cigarette and confessed “I’ve just killed a woman with this,” still holding the scissors.
Chranowski, of Green Lane, Spalding, denied attempted murder on February 2, 2011 but was found guilty by a jury after a trial. He was also convicted of wounding another resident with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm.
Judge John Milmo QC, passing sentence at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday, said “This was a wholly unprovoked attack with a potentially lethal weapon.
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Ex-Holbeach Boy
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 07:47 AM@16 Good points. Shame emotion sometimes get in the way of facts and some people actually believe what they read in the national tabloids.
McIrish
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 08:05 PMI think let them do there time in the prisons then brand them on there foreheads then deport .
Doo Hickey
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 04:41 PMSadly he will do a fraction of the 'sentence', regardless of who he is, but if 'sent back home', it would be a quick turnround with a another name and be back on the boat back over sadly..
RobHolbeach
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 03:39 PMI think a lot of the comments, and indeed anger, on here come from the constant trickle of national media hype rather than actual fact. a) If foreign criminals are sent back to their own countries the UK will have no say in if or how long they are detained. b) Upon completion of his sentence he would be deported as per the 2007 Border Agency Act. c) UK prisons are like holiday camps are they? I guess the rapidly increasing inmate suicide rate is down to too much Sky HD.
janec1951
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 02:46 PMAny foreign national who commits a serious crime here should be sent home and never allowed back into this country. As for them being let out early, that will happen here anyway. At least back in their own country their time in prison will not be like a holiday that we are paying for. The victim has to live with the consequences of this terrible crime and should be able to know she will never see this person again.
AngryPerson
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 01:14 PMIn all fairness I can see why people are playing the "Race card", you only need to spend 10 minutes walking round Spalding town to see why, me and my friends call it "pole-ding" now and I am considering leaving the town to move elsewhere, it's a disgrace and people that say we are "racist" really need to look at the situation, the crime itself is a disgrace and yes if the man was from another country he should be extradited and never allowed to come back, it's what every other country would do!!
sabbath97
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:47 PMi disagree, as far as i'm concerned nationality has everything to do with it, we are always being told how hard working and vital these eastern europeans are yet week in week out we read crimecourt reports involving them, yes you can say its a minority of their community but it is becoming quite a big minority
Lazy Daisy
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 11:06 AMThank you RobHolbeach. I thought I was banging my head against the wall on this issue. Criticise the deed not the ethnic origin of 'im wot done it.
RobHolbeach
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 10:40 AMI wholeheartedly agree James Mark. There seems to be plenty of people who can't wait for the opportunity to jump on "race" bandwagon; I imagine their eyes "lit up" when they saw it was a foreign national. It makes me ashamed to be British. Every crime should be judged on the individual criminal not what ethic group, religious or class they belong to.
James Mark
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 09:26 AMOkay my mistake (article is not exactly clear) but my point is the same - there's a terrible crime committed with a victim and all the comments are based on the nationality of the attacker. There's then a whole rack of undue speculation without the facts.
trickyhicky270
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 08:00 AMHe got 18 years so will probably do 8 or 9 at the most, should have been strung up but no we are now going to provide him with a roof over his head, 3 meals a day, TV, computer access, telephone access (to phone poland no doubt). UK justice system is a joke!
Ex-Holbeach Boy
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 07:47 AMIf you "send him back" it is up to the home country as to how long he spends in jail - they could free him early and the UK would be unable to do anything about it. Would the victim be happy if this happened?
mavrick
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 07:46 AMjames mark if you had read the story thank god the lady didnt die
James Mark
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 11:16 PMUnbelievable! All comments below just focus on race and seem to ignore the crime at hand, let alone the poor victim. RIP.
ysandy
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 10:02 PMSaid in one of the national papers they'd think twice before doing a crime if they knew they were going to get sent back, well here's their now so let not this goverment think twice before sending him back and the other 10.999 foriegn prisoner NO SEND THEM BACK, millions wasted one them
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