Osarenkhoe Atutie, 26, left Victory Atutie with 12 separate injuries after repeatedly stabbing her in the assault on Duke Street, Leith, on November 11 last year.<\/p>\n
He admitted the attempted murder during a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday and is due to be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n
During the hearing, the court was told the couple had got married in Nigeria before coming the UK, where they had a daughter.<\/p>\n
They initially lived in London but, following a \u201cbreakdown\u201d in the relationship, Ms Atutie moved to Edinburgh with their child.<\/p>\n
On November 11 2025, Ms Atutie had been taking her daughter for a doctor\u2019s appointment when the 26-year-old approached them.<\/p>\n
The court heard the child had seen him first and shouted \u201cdaddy, daddy\u201d, and that initially Ms Atutie did not believe her as she thought he was in London.<\/p>\n
However, when she caught sight of him she \u201cimmediately panicked\u201d.<\/p>\n
The court heard Atutie came up to them and lifted the cover of the buggy before giving his daughter a hug.<\/p>\n
He then told Ms Atutie: \u201cI brought a knife, I will show you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giving an account of the incident, prosecutor Catriona MacLeod said Ms Atutie then continued walking, with Atutie alongside her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accused was angry, she was scared because she knew he was going to hurt her,\u201d Ms MacLeod said.<\/p>\n
At one point, Ms Atutie tried to get the attention of a man standing nearby, shouting: \u201che\u2019s going to hurt me, he\u2019s going to hurt me.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the man did not act, telling police afterwards Atutie had seemed \u201ccalm\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms MacLeod said Atutie then attacked her, telling the court he \u201cgrabbed her hair and repeatedly stabbed her in the head and body\u201d.<\/p>\n
The knife was described as having a silver blade and being \u201caround 10cm\u201d in length.<\/p>\n
The attack came to an end when three bystanders ran over and held Atutie on the ground until the emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n
Ms Atutie was left with 12 separate injuries, including to her face, neck, torso and hand.<\/p>\n
She was taken to hospital where she was found to have suffered a collapsed lung and a haemothorax \u2013 fluid in the chest cavity \u2013 which the court heard was potentially fatal.<\/p>\n
She was discharged four days later, and although she made a full recovery she has been left with \u201cscarring at the site of her injuries\u201d.<\/p>\n
The court heard, following his arrest, Atutie was taken to St Leonard\u2019s police station, where he told officers: \u201cI am sorry things have got like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Lord Cubie told Atutie he had pleaded guilty to attempting to murder his ex-partner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere seemed to be a sustained attack and 12 separate injuries are recorded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very serious offence with lifelong consequences in relation to the complainer, who was left with significant physical injuries, scarring to her face, and profound and deep psychological trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n
Atutie, appeared in court dressed in a blue fleece and purple trousers, and spoke only to confirm his name and his guilty plea.<\/p>\n
The judge ordered a criminal justice social work report to be drawn up ahead of a sentencing hearing in Stirling on August 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Osarenkhoe Atutie, 26, left Victory Atutie with 12 separate injuries after repeatedly stabbing her in the assault on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-237816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}