A man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was attacked in Devizes.
37-year-old Lee Quarrington was arrested when police officers attended an address in the town on Wednesday (14 October).
It’s alleged that the defendant, of Ernle Drive, intentionally suffocated and attempted to murder a woman on Tuesday (13 October).
Quarrington is also accused of falsely imprisoning the woman between 5 and 14 October this year, and controlling her between 1 September 2025 and 14 October this year.
He is further charged with threatening the woman with a knife in a private place between 5 and 14 October this year.
Additional allegations include two counts of threats to kill, a second count of threatening a person with a knife in a private place, five counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two counts of intentional strangulation.
He has been remanded in police custody to appear at Salisbury Magistrates’ Court today (Thursday).
