An Oldham man stabbed his partner multiple times in their home – after an argument broke out over a Snoop Dogg song.

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard Stephen Turnock struck the woman he had been living with for several months on Clyde Street in the town in May this year.

The pair had been drinking together when the argument took place about the song they were listening to.

Turnock proceeded to flip the kitchen table over and the woman made her way to the top of the stairs trying to get away from him.

He followed and struck her nose with his palm before he went back downstairs and came back with a knife.

She raised her left hand to protect herself and this was struck with the weapon.

Following this the woman went to bed.

The next day at around 5.30am, the court was told she heard Turnock getting up and assumed he was going to work.

But her torment continued as he stabbed the left side of her neck with a knife while she was in bed.

Turnock proceeded to hurl insults at her and threw items at her including an iron and an Xbox and sprayed deodorant in her mouth.

He then used clippers to shave the front of her hair off and broke her mobile phone.

Prosecutor Daniel Lister said: “She ran out of the back door and saw her friend’s partner.

“She asked him to call an ambulance before she went into a care home across the road where she was looked after.

“He described her as looking a complete mess, in a dressing gown and nothing underneath and there being blood on the dressing gown.

“The defendant handed himself in to the police.”

He added that none of the injuries caused seemed to be “irreversible.”

Turnock was initially charged with grievous bodily harm but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of wounding with intent which prosecutors accepted reflected the injuries caused in the case.

The man from Clyde Street in Oldham appeared in court to be sentenced today.

Representing the 40-year-old, defence counsel Gwen Henshaw said he was remorseful for his conduct.

She said: “The defendant does not wish to make excuses.

“Mr Turnock expresses his full remorse for this behaviour.

“He wanted me to convey how terribly ashamed he is for what he did that night.

“He accepts he lost control and behaved in an appalling and violent manner.”

Imposing a sentence, Judge Recorder Ciaran Rankin said Turnock was fortunate not to be facing a more serious charge.

He said: “An argument began over a remarkably trivial matter, red mist descended and you attacked her.

“I have seen the photographs of the injuries and the remarkable amount of blood lost, you are lucky you are not facing a far more serious charge.”

He jailed Turnock for four years and applied a restraining order requiring him to stay away from the woman in question to run indefinitely.