Rebekah was in her home of Knowsley Heights when she was attacked (Picture: Merseyside Police)
A man who stabbed his girlfriend 27 times earlier this year in a brutal attack has been locked up for life.
Michael Ormandy,34,shouted ‘little tramp’ and ‘little rat’ as he was jailed for life for the murder of Rebekah Campbell,32.
Ms Campbell died aged 32 after being knifed 27 times inside her own flat at Knowsley Heights in Huyton,Merseyside,in April this year.
Ormandy claimed to have acted in self-defence during the incident despite suffering only a single cut to his hand during the altercation.
Rebekah was meanwhile left covered in blood as she collapsed outside the block of flats,having suffered 18 stab wounds and been slashed a further nine times with a knife.
She pleaded ‘get out,go away Mick’ as he burst into her home unannounced in a bulletproof vest and brutally attacked her,before asking police officers who rushed to the scene if she would die.
Rebekah Campbell was targeted in her own home (Picture: Merseyside Police)
Only three days earlier,Ormandy had left his partner with a black eye after punching her during a night out in Liverpool city centre.
The confessed drug dealer then had sex with another woman at a hotel and told her that he was ‘going to Liverpool to sort something out’ a matter of hours before the fatal stabbing.
In the aftermath,the former boxer and cage fighter,who has a tattoo of the words ‘The Hitman’ across the front of his neck,called the police in the early hours and claimed to have a ‘suicide vest’
After his arrest,he went on to remark that his victim ‘must have stabbed herself’.
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Some in the public gallery called him a ‘nonce’ as he walked to the cells,to which he shouted,‘You little tramp. You little rat.’
Sentencing Judge Andrew Menary KC said: ‘This senseless and pointless killing resulted from your jealousy,desire to control her and uncontrolled,aggressive rage.
‘Despite everything you have claimed since,there was no justification for that attack. You told the court you were formerly a cage fighter and boxer. That was a cowardly act against a woman who posed no threat to you at all.
‘In the following days,the relationship deteriorated further. Rebekah told friends that she wanted to end it. You went to her flat unannounced,no doubt in a manner designed to conceal your arrival.
‘Voice messages you sent while in her block of flats really capture your mood,resentful,controlling and with a desire to confront her.
‘The fact is that you are,and will remain for a number of years,a deeply unpleasant and dangerous man.’
Rebekah’s mum,Deborah Woolerton,said in a statement: ‘Rebekah,our beautiful daughter. We should not have to be here today wishing she was still with us,having fun,living life to the full,making others smile,making plans for the bright future she had ahead of her. Our hearts are broken,and we will never ever be the same without her in our lives.
‘Rebekah had her whole life ahead of her and shouldn’t have been taken away so young. All she wanted in life was to be happy and one day have a little family of her own. Most of all,she wanted children. We won’t get to see her do any of these things now.’
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