A stabbing victim wrote a letter to a judge to say she did not believe her former boyfriend intended to puncture her liver when he attacked her with a knife.
The woman said she had made a full recovery from the injury which was inflicted on her by Craig Wardle after he believed she was being chatted up by another man.
Derby Crown Court was told how the 27-year-old armed himself with a knife intent on "getting" the man concerned.
The stabbing occurred in Ripley on August 8.
Wardle pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and also to two counts of criminal damage whereby he threw bricks through the windows of two properties in Ironville in May.
Judge Bennett jailed Wardle, of Bailey Brook Drive, Langley Mill, for 34 months.