A DAD who murdered his girlfriend as she asked “am I gonna die?” had sex with another woman just hours before the horror, a court heard.
Rebekah Campbell, 32, was allegedly stabbed 18 times by Michael Ormandy, 34, at her home in Huyton, Merseyside.
Rebekah Campbell was allegedly stabbed to death at home[/caption]
Michael Ormandy is accused of 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.
Liverpool Crown Court heard in the hours leading up to the alleged murder, Ormandy messaged a woman he previously met at the pub where she worked.
The woman, who can’t be named, went to his hotel room in the city and shared a vodka and orange.
She told the court: “We slept together and had intercourse. He said he was going to see his kids at his mum’s. I left, went home then went to work.”
The woman said Ormandy later came to her pub and asked if she was “alright” before leaving.
He text her saying he was going to Liverpool to “sort something out” but did not reveal what it was, she continued.
The woman said she later discovered a woman had been killed that was the same person in a photo Ormandy had shown her earlier in the year.
She added: “I felt sick and then learned that Michael had been charged with her murder.”
CCTV footage played to the court showed Ormandy checking into the hotel at 1pm that day before the woman arrived at 3pm.
The pair left together shortly after 4.30pm before sharing a kiss outside then going their separate ways.
Ormandy then returned to the hotel in a taxi at 7pm, the footage showed.
Jurors heard how 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.”
Ormandy denies murder and the trial continues.
Rebekah suffered 18 stab wounds[/caption]
She had been at home alone when the horror unfolded[/caption]
