A WOMAN asked “am I going to die?” after she was stabbed by her boyfriend 18 times in a “violent” murder, a court heard.
Rebekah Campbell, 32, was allegedly attacked by Michael Ormandy, 34, at her home in Huyton, Merseyside.
Rebekah Campbell was stabbed to death at home[/caption]
Michael Ormandy has denied murder[/caption]
She ran out into the street screaming “I’ve been stabbed” before she collapsed outside the block of flats, jurors heard.
As emergency crews battled to save her life, Rebekah asked an officer: “Am I gonna die?”
The cop replied: “You are hurt, but you are in the best place now.”
Rebekah tragically could not be saved and was declared dead the following day.
A post mortem revealed she had suffered 18 stab wounds and nine slash wounds.
Her cause of death was recorded as stab wounds to the chest.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Ormandy and Rebekah had rowed during a night out in Liverpool city centre days before the horror.
When he was arrested over Rebekah’s death, Ormandy told police: “This wouldn’t have happened if you did your job last week.”
Jurors heard on April 15 this year, Rebekah was on the phone with pal Faye Henderson when she began shouting “go away, get out Mick”.
Faye then heard a “loud bang and puppies barking in the background”, it was said.
David McLachlan KC, prosecuting, said: “Thereafter, Faye Henderson did not hear anything else. So concerned was Faye Henderson, that she rang 999.
“Faye Henderson was right to be concerned about her friend, because, inside that flat in Huyton, on the fifth floor, Michael Ormandy, the man in the dock, stabbed his partner Rebekah Campbell many, many times.
“In reality, he stabbed her to death.”
Ormandy and Rebekah were said to have been together for around four months prior to her death but she had complained the relationship “was not going well”.
She also told a friend she was “ready to end it”, the court heard.
One pal claimed Ormandy would call Rebekah a “s**g” and would “just stand at the bar and stare at her”.
On April 12, Rebekah was said to have thrown a shoe at her boyfriend and slapped him while out drinking, jurors were told.
Ormandy later struck her face after a second row erupted on the night out.
Following his arrest on suspicion of murder, Ormandy told police she had screamed “I’ve got a knife” when he had entered her home.
He claimed he managed to disarm her but Rebekah remained on top of him and was “attacking him”.
Ormandy said he responded by punching her “in self-defence” before pushing her on the couch.
Referring to the April 12 row, he suggested if the police had “arrested Rebekah on this date, there would have been no further incident which led to him acting in self-defence.”
Mr McLachlan added: “In conclusion, members of the jury, it is the prosecution case that, on the 15th of April of this year, Michael Ormandy, the man in the dock, went to Rebekah Campbell’s flat and attacked her with a knife.
“He stabbed her many, many times in what, on any version of events, must have been a sustained and violent assault, which led to her untimely death.
“In relation to the issues you will consider and grapple with in this case, you know that Michael Ormandy denies murder.
“His defences to the charge of murder appears to be as follows. Number one, that he was acting in self-defence. Number two, that he did not form the necessary intent to kill or to cause really serious harm, this being an essential ingredient of the offence of murder.”
Ormandy denies murder and the trial continues.
Rebekah was knifed 18 times, jurors heard[/caption]
Her cause of death was given as stab wounds to the chest[/caption]
