An elderly man stabbed his girlfriend more than 70 times in a ‘drug-fuelled psychotic rage’, before sitting down to watch television next to her dead body.
He had become paranoid the mum-of-two was ‘putting stuff into his tea.’At Preston Crown Court this week Paul Cummings, prosecuting, said: ‘The victim had received multiple wounds all over her body.
‘The effect of that was that sadly, despite the presence of a number of paramedics, a decision was taken fairly soon that Ms Ambler had died.’ The 49-year-old was found with 70 knife injuries, which all stemmed from a 13cm pronged blade found at the scene. She had been stabbed in her neck, the chest, the abdomen and across her legs and arms, the court was told.Payne was charged with murder and pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in November last year.Judge Simon Medland had been told Payne had been suffering from an undiagnosed psychotic illness at the time of the attack.
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