A man convicted of attempted murder after he deliberately crashed his car into his ex-wife on a Hull street before beating her with a baseball bat has been jailed for 24 years.
Laurance Worvill’s car mounted the pavement and hit the woman outside a shop on Chanterlands Avenue in Hull in May 2025. He then got out of the car and beat her with the bat.
He was overpowered by a number of passers-by who detained him until police arrived. The woman suffered serious head and leg injuries.
Worvill, 51, of Spring Bank West in Hull, denied the charge, but was found guilty following a three-day trial at Hull Crown Court last month.
The court heard he blamed his wife for the end of their marriage after he was jailed for assaulting her.
After being released from prison, he broke into a Royal Mail depot where he used to work and stole information that revealed where his ex-wife was living.
He then bought a baseball bat and drove up and down Chanterlands Avenue looking for her.
In a statement read to the court, the victim said the attack had left her with mental and physical scars.
She said she had a fear of the sound of speeding cars which she found “scary and raises my anxiety levels through the roof”.
“I’m in constant fear of what if,” she said.