Monstrous Couple Cut Open Sleeping Friend's Body in Gruesome Attack,

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Monstrous UK Couple Cut Open Friend's Body in Gruesome Attack, as He Slept

Jon Hamblin and Jessica Whinham were found guilty of attempted murder after they cut open Paul Binks body so he could see his intestines and said they would remove his heart

Daily Mirror 9 APR 2022













Jon Hamblin, pictured, along with Jessica Whinham, has been remanded in custody ahead of sentencing

A couple carried out a "monstrous" attack where they cut open a man's body so that he could see his intestines and said they would remove his heart, a court heard.


Jon Hamblin and Jessica Whinham were found guilty of attempted murder after they cut open Paul Binks as he slept in a horrific ordeal, reported ChronicleLive.

Mr Binks woke up in Whinham's flat in North Shields to find his intestines sticking out and said he was then throttled with a phone charger before being put in a bath while being told he was going to be drowned, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

He was eventually allowed to leave and went bleeding heavily to a shocked couple's home in the early hours of the morning who tried to help him before an ambulance arrived.

Mr Binks was apparently attacked for sharing a rumour with Hamblin that pornographic model Whinham was a "grass", which he said he did to warn him to be careful.

Hamblin, of Stirling Drive, North Shields and Whinham, of Stanley Street West, North Shields were both found guilty of attempted murder with jurors needing just half an hour to convict them.

They were remanded in custody and warned they face substantial prison sentences once pre-sentence reports have been compiled.

Speaking after the hearing, Acting Detective Chief Inspector Jill Hall said: “Hamblin and Whinham’s treatment of their victim was inhuman – it was a monstrous attack against a man who believed he was safe and secure in the company of friends.

"I want to thank the victim for his bravery throughout. No prison sentences will ever take away the pain of what’s happened, but I hope this guilty verdict gives him some comfort knowing that his attackers have been brought to justice and will be made to pay for their vile actions.

“Thank you also to the couple who took in the victim in his hour of need and assisted him until paramedics arrived. The victim saw the very worst in humanity that day but also some of the very best when these strangers rushed to his aid."

The court heard that Hamblin, 41, was staying with Whinham, 20, and Mr Binks, who is in his 30s, was spending time with them for about two weeks last September before the attack, drinking and taking drugs.

Mr Binks told police he had left the flat on the night of September 10 to buy drugs and when he told his dealer he was staying at Whinham's home, the dealer told him she "was a grass and had got lads in trouble in the past for things that were not substantiated".





Jurors at Newcastle Crown Court took just an hour and half to find the couple guilty


At Whinham's home, Mr Binks told Hamblin in an attempt to warn him but prosecutors said it caused "mortal offence and provoked a savage and cowardly response".

Hamblin and Whinham told Mr Binks they were going to bed and he thinks he dozed off on a sofa.

He then remembers coming round feeling confused and weak on the floor.

“I said ‘what’s going on, why am I on the floor’. Jon said ‘you’ve been f****** stabbed. I was confused. I said ‘who’s stabbed me like’ and he said ‘f****** me, I’ve cut your f****** heart out, you are going to die’," Mr Binks said.

“I looked down and pulled my top up and there was a tube, my intestine. I was trying to push it back in. I remember him trying to go for my throat and I put my hand up. He was standing over me with a knife, I couldn’t understand. I thought I was dreaming. I started thinking I’m badly injured here. I was bleeding profusely.

“Jess was mopping up the blood. There was a bit of flesh. I thought it was my liver. I was in a dream-like state. It was so surreal.

“Jess took the bit of flesh off me and put it in the bucket. Jess said ‘we’ve got your heart out, it’s in the bucket'.”

He continued: “I had no strength at all, my guts were hanging out. I think I went into survival mode. I remember thinking ‘I’m not dying here, I need to survive’.”

Mr Binks claimed Whinham said: “It’s done, it’s done, you’re dead, it’s over, you’re dead.”

He added: “I honestly thought he was going to kill me. I could see a different man there, it was not the Jon I had known.”

He said Hamblin tried to slash him again and he said “no, no, no, howay.”

He added: “I remember thinking ‘he is going to kill me” and “I’m dying” while claiming Whinham “didn’t seem bothered at all” and was cleaning up. At one point, she is claimed to have said: “Aye that’s what you get for calling me a grass.”

Mr Binks said Whinham was even “trying to wind me up” by putting music on saying they were the last songs he was going to hear.

Whinham is claimed to have said: “You’re a goner, no one is going to see you again.”

Mr Binks stated: “My family started going through my head. I started thinking ‘you are dying, this is it, this is how it happens.’" He went on: “I can’t get my head round the level of violence.”

He said Hamblin then put a phone charger around his neck and tightened it with his foot on his back, to the point he heard it creaking and then put him in the bath.

“Jon put the hot water on and said he was going to drown me. I said ‘no, no, don’t drown me,’ it’s one of my worst fears. I said just stab me. He said ‘it’s dead peaceful man, you will be alright, you are going to die anyway, you might as well have a peaceful death',” said Mr Binks.

Then Whinham supposedly complained her gas was being “wasted on you” by using hot water so swapped it to running the cold tap but Mr Binks pulled the plug out and begged for his life, saying he didn't want to die.

He said Hamblin told him he was “basically already dead” and said he was going to “chop me up and put me all over North Tyneside.”

After promising not to tell anyone what they had done, he was eventually told he could leave.

Mr Binks said: “I was gurgling, spitting out blood. I asked him to help me up. He said I couldn’t go unless I got myself out of the bath.”

He said a surge of adrenaline helped him get out and he "was keeping hold of my guts" to keep them inside his body.

Mr Binks suffered seven separate knife wounds, including to his ear, chest, back and arm and one of them had gone into his liver.

He also had a compression injury to his neck consistent with the charging cable being used as a ligature. The air ambulance arrived and he had no pulse on the way to hospital.