A jilted lover who stabbed her former boyfriend in the penis during a 'Fatal Attraction' style attack while he was driving has been jailed.

Tatiana Bastos, 29, plunged a kitchen knife into her ex-lover's groin as they drove along after discovering he was seeing a new girlfriend.

Ricardo Morais, 31, told a jury how he felt "the cold of the knife" against his penis and was in agony as he fought to stop the car by pulling on the handbrake.

The stunned factory worker later needed stitches to his penis after the six-inch blade cut through three levels of his clothing.

Then his ordeal was made even worse when Bastos tried to cover her tracks by making up a story that he had sexually assaulted her.

Judge Michael Heath, who jailed Bastos for 32 months at Lincoln Crown Court, told her that stabbing Mr Morais in the groin was a "wicked thing to do."

"When you stabbed the knife into his groin it penetrated three levels of clothing, his jeans, his thermals and his boxer shorts," Judge Heath said.

Mr Morais was forced to give evidence against his former partner after Bastos, who is now living in Peterborough, denied making up the sexual complaint against him.

Caroline Bradley, prosecuting, said Bastos had "grilled" Mr Morais for information about his new girlfriend and demanded to know why he wasn't answering her text messages.

Giving evidence during the trial Mr Morais described how he felt the "cold of the knife" on his penis after Bastos carried out the attack.

Bastos suddenly turned up unannounced at the Currys depot where Mr Morais worked in Newark, two months after he had ended their relationship and moved in with his brother.

Mr Morais was given permission by his supervisor to drive Bastos back to her Lincoln flat, but once there she made sexual advances to him which he rejected.

"She said she was going to kill me and then kill herself," Mr Morais added. "I didn't believe her, that was my mistake.

"I kept driving and kept my eye on the road ahead. The next thing I felt Tatiana leaning in to me and I felt the blade in my groin.

"I hadn't expected it. She didn't say anything. I felt I was going to die."

Bastos, formerly of High Street, Lincoln, admitted unlawfully wounding Mr Morais, possessing an offensive weapon and perverting the course of justice between 21 and 23 May, 2008.