'Am I going to die?'

WOMAN'S DESPERATE QUESTION TO POLICE OFFICER REVEALED AS TRIAL BEGINS WITH HER PARTNER ACCUSED OF HER MURDER

- By ADAM EVERETT ECHO Reporter

Rebekah Campbell was stabbed to death inside a flat at Knowsley Heights in Huyton. Michael Ormandy, 34, (inset) is accused of her murder

A WOMAN asked a police officer “am I gonna die?” after her boyfriend stabbed her 18 times, a murder trial has heard.

Rebekah Campbell died following what was described as a “sustained and violent assault” inside her own home at Knowsley Heights in Huyton earlier this year.

The 32-year-old shouted “I've been stabbed” before collapsing outside the flats where she lived, her clothes stained with blood. When neighbours rushed to her aid, she told them: “My fella stabbed me”.

Her partner Michael Ormandy went on trial at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday for murder, which he denies, claiming to have acted in self-defence.

Ormandy 34, of Linacre Road in Litherland, was arrested on a canal towpath minutes after Ms Campbell’s death, having apparently thrown his phone in the water.

He told police: “This wouldn’t have happened if you did your job last week’, referring to an altercation between the couple in Liverpool city centre three days earlier.

David McLachlan KC told the jury that on April 15, Rebekah Campbell was on the phone with her friend Faye Henderson when she shouted “go away, get out Mick.” Ms Henderson heard a loud bang and puppies barking before the line went quiet. Concerned, she called 999.

Mr McLachlan said: “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.”

When Ms Henderson arrived at the scene, Ms Campbell was being treated for multiple stab wounds, but later died in hospital, Mr McLachlan said.