A FATHER who tried to murder a woman in an attack with wooden table legs has been jailed for 10 years.

Robert Carr, who has 10 children, battered his victim and throttled her, later sending her a social media message saying: “Am home love u xxx.”

He also sent a Facebook message to her mother asking if the victim was OK as he had “just not heard from her”.

Carr, 39, later sent a further message to his victim asking: “Why did u send the police to my door”.

The frightened 20-year-old woman had been found by paramedics crouching behind a parked car, covered in blood and shaking badly after fleeing her home in Lochgelly, in Fife, where Carr had attacked her.

She was taken to hospital where head wounds were sutured and stapled and doctors noted rectangular marks on her back and shoulder blades consistent with being hit with a table leg.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that the attempted murder followed a string of violent offences Carr, of Elgin Drive, Glenrothes, had inflicted on women.

The court heard that one his victims said that she still did not feel safe and another said she was terrified of Carr and feared that he would kill her.

A judge told Carr: “You pled guilty to 10 charges comprising a series of offences involving a sustained and violent course of conduct against women culminating in attempted murder.”

The victim later moved to England to flee Carr.