A grandmother has spoken of how her ex-boyfriend cut her throat four times and left her to die after she ended a violent and abusive relationship.
Rachele Godsall, 45, is lucky to be alive after being taken hostage and then surviving a horrific attack last week at their Seville Grove home in Perth’s southern suburbs.
‘He just grabbed a knife and he just looked at me and just cut my throat,’ she told Seven News on Thursday. ‘And then he did it three more times.’
Perth grandmother Rachele Godsall has spoken of surviving a horrific attack by ex-partner
The 45-year-old woman was slashed four times across the throat and left to die on the floor
Brad Peterson then left her to die on the floor as blood spurted from her throat, and her arms were wounded in self defence, following that brutal attack on Tuesday last week.
‘Once he’s seen the blood spurting out, I was holding on to my throat and he kind of got off me,’ Ms Godall said.
Drifting in and out of consciousness, the battered woman stayed alive for the sake of her loved ones, including her four-year-old granddaughter.
‘I just wanted to see my kids and my granddaughter,’ she said.
Following that failed murder attempt, the New Zealand woman had to undergo tracheotomy surgery at Royal Perth Hospital to repair her windpipe so she could breathe.
Rachele Godsall was taken hostage and slashed across the throat by an abusive ex-boyfriend
Ms Godsall, who now wears a bandage over her throat, said her abusive partner tried to kill her after she had told him she wanted to end the relationship.
A day earlier, on the Monday, Mr Peterson had taken her hostage after she had returned to Perth from her shift at a mine site.
He then smacked her mouth, tied her up and gagged her before driving them to nearby bushland where he tried to kill them both.
He later took her back to their home, confiscating her mobile phone and keys and menacingly telling her to avoid contacting police.
Brad Peterson died in a car crash several hours after trying to kill a woman who had left him
She was attacked the next morning when she told him she wanted to leave him and tried to retrieve her car keys.
As she lay bleeding, he got in her car and left.
Ms Godsall managed to get help from a neighbour while her abusive ex-boyfriend died in a car crash several hours later as he drove into oncoming traffic.
She told Seven News she had stayed in an abusive relationship because still loved her partner.
‘When he was good, he was good,’ she said.
Her sister Justine Godsall has set up a Go Fund Me appeal in the hope of raising $10,000 so Rachele Godsall can buy a car to attend months of appointments with physiotherapists and doctors.