BEAUTICIAN Janee Parsons was stabbed more than a dozen times by her husband in an attack witnessed by one of the couple's sons, a jury has been told today.

Miranda Moore, prosecuting, opened the trial of Andrew Parsons at Oxford Crown Court and said the defendant attacked his wife on the landing outside the bedroom at their family home in Lucerne Avenue, Bicester, on December 1.

He then went to the kitchen to get a knife and stabbed her.

It was witnessed by one of the couple's two young sons - who begged his father to stop the attack and call for an ambulance.

The court heard that Mrs Parsons had asked Mr Parsons for a divorce and she had begun seeing someone else.

Mrs Parsons was due to meet her boyfriend at 10am that day to spend the weekend with him, the jury heard.

The court heard Mr Parsons had taped a voice recorder underneath Mrs Parson's bed which recorded her pleading for her life during the alleged attack.

Miss Moore said Parsons punched his wife before going downstairs to get a knife.

She said: "He then came up the stairs with it and stabbed her more than a dozen times. There are probably 17 or so knife wounds."

Of the attack, Ms Moore said: "What is clearly happening is the defendant is starting to stab Janee while she was outside the bedroom on the landing. Janee says 'your son is watching me die Andrew.'

"The boy continues to scream for his daddy and then his mummy."

The 38-year-old denies murder.

The trial continues.