Two people who attempted to kill a man in Brisbane and subsequently fled to Tweed Heads and Byron Bay have each been jailed for more than 10 years.
A Brisbane court heard that Toni Maree Prestidge lured Francis Fein to a Brisbane apartment where she and Neil Alan Simpson set upon him, stabbing him, cutting his throat and bashing him with a baton, APN Media reports.
Fein managed to escape the attack by jumping over a second-floor balcony while still spurting blood.
The couple then fled to Tweed Heads and subsequently Byron Bay.
Noting that the jury refused to accept either’s version of events, Justice Martin Daubney sentenced Simpson to 14 years in jail and Prestidge to 12.
