Nigerian man sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for attempted m8rder of his ex-wife in UK A 26-year-old Nigerian man has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for the attempted m8rder of his estranged wife in front of their child on a street in Edinburgh, Scotland.Osarenkhoe Atutie previously pled guilty to the violent offence and was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow on Wednesday, August 5, 2026. The incident happened on Tuesday, 11 November, 2025 on Duke Street, Leith, where he hugged his daughter before repeatedly st@bbing his ex. The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Victory Atutie, 30, sustained 12 injuries including scarring to her face and a collapsed lung. Lord Cubie said it had been a “sustained attack” on a “defenceless victim” and also banned Atutie, from contacting her for life.The couple had married in Nigeria about four years before the attack and moved to London where the child was born.But following a breakdown in their relationship, the wife and daughter moved to Edinburgh where Atutie tracked them down.The judge said this indicated “a degree of foresight” to the attack.Lord Cubie added: “She could have died. It was plainly through a combination of luck and the intervention of passers-by that she survived.