'Jealous' ex stabbed man in the heart on Xmas Day, court told

A "MANIPULATIVE, emotionally volatile and jealous" woman stabbed her ex-partner in the heart on Christmas Day while on police bail for strangling him the month before he died, a court has heard.

- STEPHANIE WAREHAM News Reporter

Kirsty Carless, 33, was "fuelled by cocaine and alcohol" when she took a taxi from her home in Cannock, Staffordshire, to the address where Louis Price, 31, was living and plunged a kitchen knife into his chest after a friend had shown her his profile on a dating app, Stafford Crown Court was told.

Carless, who appeared in the dock wearing a white shirt with her hair in a ponytail, denies murdering Mr Price and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.

At the time of the fatal stabbing, Carless had been on police bail after allegedly strangling Mr Price on November 11, 2024 and she denies one count of intentional strangling and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to that incident.

It is alleged she took the kitchen knife with her from her home in Haling Way to her ex-partner’s parents’ home in Elm Road in Norton Canes in a taxi at around 3am on December 25 last year.