Police sealed off a house in Caldicot on Saturday A 43-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in Monmouthshire.Gwent Police were called to a report of a disturbance in the Sandy Lane area of Caldicot at about 01:00 BST on Saturday.
The woman, 47, suffered serious serious stab wounds.
Police said she remains in a serious but stable condition in the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.
A local man, 43, is due to appear before magistrates on Monday.
Lynette White had been stabbed more than 50 times A man whose evidence helped wrongly convict three men for murder once confessed to police that he was the killer, Swansea Crown Court has heard.Paul Atkins, 56, had said he wrestled prostitute Lynette White to the floor before stabbing her, but now denies any knowledge of the crime.
The men known as the Cardiff Three were later cleared of the killing.
Eight ex-police officers deny conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Two other people deny perjury.
Ms White, 20, was found stabbed 50 times at her flat in Butetown, Cardiff, in 1988.
The trial follows a new investigation into how the Cardiff Three - Stephen Miller, Yusef Abdullahi and Tony Paris - were prosecuted in 1990 for her death.
They were released by the Court of Appeal two years later, although Mr Abdullahi has since died.
The eight former police officers have been accused of manufacturing a case against the three innocent men.
The court has heard Mr Atkins, who twice gave evidence against the Cardiff Three, was babysitting at a nearby house on the night Ms White was murdered.
He had told the jury that he signed a statement saying he had heard her screams only after a police officer threatened to charge him with the crime.
Continue reading the main story GRAHAM MOUNCHER (retired chief inspector) THOMAS PAGE (retired chief inspector) RICHARD POWELL (retired supt)JOHN SEAFORD (retired det con)MICHAEL DANIELS (retired det con)PETER GREENWOOD (retired det con)PAUL JENNINGS (retired det con)PAUL STEPHEN (retired sergeant)All the above deny conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Mr Mouncher also denies two counts of perjuryVIOLET PERRIAM and IAN MASSEY deny two counts of perjury.Varying accounts Giving more evidence on Friday, Mr Atkins said that he had even confessed to the killing but he could not remember telling then Det Chief Inspector John Ludlow about the details.DCI Ludlow had logged Mr Atkins as saying he had met Miss White in the Custom House pub, in the then docks area of Cardiff and that it was agreed he would have sex with her.
Mr Atkins told the court that he was gay and had not said anything in his 1988 police interview about having sex with her.
Nor did he say to the detective that after killing Miss White he had cut both her wrists and her throat, the jury heard.
"He's making that up," said Mr Atkins.
Mr Atkins agreed he had told police several different versions about what happened at Flat 1, 7 James Street during the early hours of February 14, 1988.
Neighbour with knifeBut he denied that, before he "confessed," he had told DCI Ludlow that Mark Grommek, a friend of his and the occupier of Flat 2, had murdered Ms White.
DCI Ludlow had recorded Mr Atkins as saying that Mr Grommek had gone to Flat 1 to have sex with Ms White.
The court heard his police statement claimed that, after hearing a scream, Mr Atkins went downstairs to see Mr Grommek emerging from the flat covered in blood and carrying a blood stained knife.
Mr Atkins told the jury that he could not remember accusing Mr Grommek although he said, "but I might have said it".
Mr Atkins went on to provide more accounts of what he had seen on February 14 and, in the following two years, twice gave evidence at Swansea Crown Court.
In 2003 advances in DNA technology led police to Jeffrey Gafoor, who had not been questioned in 1988.
Gafoor, now 46, admitted murder and was jailed for life.
The eight police officers and two other people have all pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
The trial continues.
Rebecca Aylward's body was found in woodland near Bridgend A 16-year-old youth who denies murdering his ex-girlfriend said he joked about killing her as a bet for a free breakfast but never meant it.Rebecca Aylward, 15, of Maesteg, was found dead in woods in Aberkenfig, near Bridgend, south Wales, in October 2010.
Giving evidence in his own defence the boy told Swansea Crown Court he would often speak about wanting to kill her.
He claims it was his best friend who carried out the killing.
The defendant started his own evidence by admitting he often talked about killing her - but denied ever meaning it.
His barrister, Peter Rouch QC, asked him: "Did you say you could kill Rebecca?"
The teenager answered: "Yes I said it more than once - I probably said it about most people."
Mr Rouch asked: "Did you have any intention of hurting or killing Rebecca?"
The defendant answered: "No."
The boy told a jury: "I said I hated Rebecca sometimes. That is when my friend turned to me and said 'get rid of her then. Just do it'."
"I was laughing first of all. Then he said 'you probably couldn't do it anyway'."
"But I said yes I could. My friend told me 'seriously just go through with something you've said for once'."
"He said 'I'll tell you something - if it does happen I will buy you breakfast'. I said you're on."
Mr Rouch asked him: "Where you serious?"
The boy answered: "No. No-one kills for a breakfast."Neck breakWhen asked if he said he would push Rebecca into a quarry the teenager laughed and said: "Probably, yeah."
Mr Rouch asked: "Did you say you could break her neck?"
He answered: "I said it about people - I'm not sure if I said it about Rebecca."
Mr Rouch asked him whether he used the word 'hate' a lot.
The boy answered: "Yes, but sometimes if I don't like my food I would say I hate it. I've probably said I hate most people over the course of the year.
"It was a word I would use and I meant at that moment I disliked them and didn't want to spend anymore time with them at that moment."
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named, denies Rebecca's murder in woodlands.
The jury was told the schoolgirl died of head injuries.
She was found still wearing new clothes bought for her the day before her death.
The trial continues.
