A DRUNK archer fired three crossbow bolts at his wife before stabbing her six times and saying: “You are dying tonight.”;
Stephen Carr, 57, had downed a litre of vodka before attacking Lorna at home last September.
After missing with the bolts, he hit her with the heavy compound bow and stabbed her in the back with a kitchen knife as she dialled 999.
CCTV — installed to help with care for Carr’s -stricken mum — captured the assault.
Carr, who has competed in archery tournaments, said he meant just to scare Lorna and would have “easily, very easily”; hit her had he wanted to.
He was branded a “significant risk to the public”;.
Judge Simon Phillips, KC, described the attack as “frenzied”; and “frightening”;.
crown heard Lorna has forgiven him for the attack and “wants to live again as husband and wife”;.
The couple married in April 2024 and had been living together since October 2023.
Carr, of Strensall, North Yorks, was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for 17 years.
