A monstrous couple who tried to murder their friend in a sickening torture-style attack have been jailed.
A monstrous couple who tried to murder their friend in a sickening torture-style attack have been jailed. Jon Hamblin, 43, and Jessica Whinham, 21, subjected Paul Binks to a horrifying ordeal in which he woke to find he had been stabbed and left with his intestines hanging out as he slept on a sofa in Whinham's North Shields flat. Whinham then deliberately played a song that she knew her victim disliked before telling him it would be the "last song you'll ever hear." Image: Jon Hamblin, 43, and Jessica Whinham, 21 Mr. Binks was then strangled with a cord before he was put in a bath and told he would be drowned during the horrendous ordeal in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, in September 2021. He managed to escape from the flat while "holding his guts in" and knock on a nearby door before almost dying as he was rushed to the hospital. The couple were arrested and sentenced to a total of 50 years with Hamblin getting 31 year...