Stabber gets 14 years for attack on pregnant fiancée

A Dartmouth, N.S., man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for stabbing his pregnant fiancée in the stomach 15 times with a sword.

Alan Bryan was sentenced Thursday by Judge Alanna Murphy in Dartmouth provincial court for the attempted murder of Charlene Knapp.

On July 31, Bryan attacked Knapp in the apartment they shared on Lakefront Road in Dartmouth. She lost their baby and ended up permanently disabled.

After the sentencing, Knapp said Bryan was scared of being a bad father.

"One day he just snapped," she told the Chronicle Herald. "The only way he could get rid of the baby was to get rid of both of us."

Bryan was initially charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon.

In November, he pleaded guilty to attempted murder.

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