Domestic violence takes many forms,usually it is not premeditated.However in Elche last week a 32 year old Moroccan woman attempted to cut the throat of her Algerian boyfriend in what appears to be a premeditated fashion.

They had been arguing but needed to get to El Altet airport in Alicante .A third party was driving them to the airport where the woman was going to get a flight to Belgium.The man sat in the front of the car with the driver and just before the car drove off the woman said that she had forgotten something and returned to the house.She brought a kitchen knife back to the car with her it seems.

During the drive the woman attacked the front seat passenger,her boyfriend ,and cut his throat.The car stopped and the man fell out of the car with blood gushing from his throat.Paramedics and police were called and the man was rushed to hospital.

The attacker was very calm and gave herself up to the police ,admitting to what she had done.She was arrested at the scene.It appears that there had been previous problems and they each had restraining orders ,one against the other but had got together again.She has been sent to prison without bail and charged with attempted manslaughter.