Killed for reporting drink-drive partner

PTSD ex-soldier faces life in jail

- BY LUCY THORNTON

A FORMER soldier with PTSD who stabbed his partner to death after she reported him for drink-driving is facing life in prison.

Stephen Lawton, 45, knifed Michelle Egge-Bailey, 54, in the neck three times and once in the arm as she lay in bed. One wound cut her jugular vein.

A jury was told Lawton murdered her "out of anger and revenge" on March 11, 2025.