A YOUNG boy screamed for his daddy to stop stabbing his mother during a vicious attack, a jury heard yesterday.

During the first day of the trial of Andrew Parsons at Oxford Crown Court, Miranda Moore, prosecuting, said he attacked his wife Janee outside her bedroom at the family home in Lucerne Avenue, Bicester, on December 1.

The couple were separating. Parsons, 38, denies murder.

Miss Moore said the defendant punched the 31-year-old mother-of-two to the ground before going downstairs to get a kitchen knife and stabbing her.

This was witnessed by one of the couple’s two sons, who pleaded with his dad to call an ambulance, the jury heard. Miss Moore said: “He came upstairs with the knife and stabbed her more than a dozen times. There are probably 17 or so knife wounds.”

The jury heard the attack had been recorded on a voice recorder, which Parsons had taped underneath Mrs Parsons’ bed.

Ms Moore said: “Whilst being stabbed Janee pleaded for her life. The couple’s five-year-old son screamed constantly for his daddy to stop.

“While Janee was still struggling for her life he put her into an empty and dry bath telling her to lie down.”

Of the attack, Ms Moore added: “What is clearly happening is the defendant is starting to stab Janee while she is 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.”

Miss Moore told the jury that Parsons had previously been told by Mrs Parsons that she was seeing someone else and wanted a divorce, and they had been living separately in the family home.

She added the attack was a “vicious killing by an angry man whose wife was going away for the weekend with her colleagues and boyfriend. He told her she deserved it.”

The jury heard Parsons stabbed Mrs Parsons so hard that a piece of the blade was found in her body.

After the attack, Parsons took his five-year-old son to a friend’s house before returning 10 minutes later, the jury heard.

Miss Moore said he put a glove on his left hand which had been injured in the attack, sent a message to Mrs Parson’s boyfriend saying ‘so sorry Daniel’ and then called the police.

She said officers found Parsons on the landing with his head in his hands groaning.

Beautician Mrs Parsons, an American citizen, worked at the Bicester Clinic and was due to meet her boyfriend Daniel Hansens on the morning of her death to spend the weekend with him, the jury heard.

Mr Hansens told the jury he met Mrs Parsons in October 2012 and they began a relationship.

He said Mrs Parsons had told him that her husband could be physically aggressive towards her.

One of the messages from Mrs Parsons to Mr Hansens in November 2012 said: “He will probably kill me and make a Janee suit out of me and make his new wife wear it.”

Mrs Parsons met her husband in 2002 and they lived in the USA before moving to Bicester.

The trial continues.