A man who stabbed a young mother in the neck with a screwdriver has been jailed for six years.
Emily Edmonds was left scarred for life after the attack by ex-partner Jermaine Binnie.
The 19-year-old needed life-saving surgery after she was stabbed just below her jaw by Binnie at her flat in Lennox Street, Brighton, in January.
The attack happened minutes after a relative had taken her five-month-old son Blake out for the day.
She was rushed to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, where she had an operation to stop internal bleeding.
A vein in her neck had been severed and police said she was lucky to have survived.
Binnie, 29, of Eaton Gardens, Hove, was charged with causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for six years at Hove Crown Court.
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