A man slashed his girlfriend's throat with a serrated knife after a row over burned lasagne.

Mark McGowan, 36, dragged Susan Simpson around by the hair and hit her head with a table leg.

After having her throat slashed 42-year-old Ms Simpson screamed for help and thought she was going to die.

The High Court in Glasgow heard McGowan nearly cut some arteries on her throat and, had he done so, his partner of three years would have been killed.

During the sustained attack at her home in Cardonald, Ms Simpson begged McGowan to stop and cried that she loved him in a desperate bid to make him stop.

Neighbours below heard her screams for help and arrived in time to see the assault.

McGowan was jailed for five years on Thursday after he admitted attempting to murder his ex-partner on March 17.

Ms Simpson was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, where she was treated for a 5cm to 6cm wound to her neck caused by a bread knife, which needed eight stitches.

Defence counsel Thomas Ross said McGowan "accepts responsibility" and "accepts this incident brings the relationship to an end".