Man says he 'lost control' before stabbing wife in Bradford
Kulsuma Akter suffered more than 25 knife injuries in an attack by her husband Habibur Masum.
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Giving evidence through a Bengali interpreter, he told Bradford Crown Court: "On the night I was missing them so dearly and I was really upset. I thought that maybe if I killed myself I won't hurt so much.
"Because I was really, really depressed I kept changing my mind. Sometimes I thought that maybe if I went away very far I would be able to forget her and forget my son."
He said he was "still optimistic" he could save the marriage and told jurors his plan was "to explain to her how I'm feeling, that I don't want to be separated from my family".
"Then I thought that even if after all that she still doesn't understand I will just kill myself in front of her," Mr Masum said.
Asked how he ended up using the knife to attack Ms Akter instead, he said: "I lost my control. I tried to talk to her, I tried to explain to her about seeing my son.
"I was trying to make her consider about our child and that he needs a father.
"She said 'you don't need to worry about our son, there's no lacking of a father for him'."
