By Mark Duell PUBLISHED: 11:22 EST, 24 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:59 EST, 24 May 2013 A jilted husband was today jailed for life for murdering his wife in front of their young son. Andrew Parsons, 38, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, beat his wife Janee, 31, and plunged a large kitchen knife into her body 17 times after their marriage broke down when she began seeing another man. The horrific attack was witnessed by one of the couple's two young sons, who begged his father to stop the onslaught and call for an ambulance, Oxford Crown Court was told. Murder: Andrew Parsons (left), 38, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, beat his wife Janee (right), 31, and plunged a large kitchen knife into her body 17 times after their marriage broke down when she began seeing another man
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Andrew Parsons, 38, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, beat his wife Janee, 31
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Couple's son begged father to stop onslaught and call for ambulance
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Parsons became angry after wife chose to leave him for another man
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