WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence.

A Brandon woman who pleaded guilty to attempted murder after stabbing her partner three times in front of their children last year was sentenced to a little over 4½ years on Tuesday.

"Two of those strikes were to the victim's neck, a point of vulnerability. That he was not more seriously injured was a matter of luck, not design," the judge said in her decision.

It was a serious incident of premeditated intimate partner violence per…