'I stabbed her ...if anything happens to my dogs I'll kill police one by one'

MURDER SUSPECT TOLD OPERATOR HE HAD A SUICIDE VEST AND WOULD 'BLOW MYSELF AND EVERYONE ELSE UP'

- By ADAM EVERETT

A DAD accused of murdering his girlfriend called police after the fatal stabbing and said “I've got a suicide vest and I'll blow everyone up, I've got nothing to lose now.”

Rebekah Campbell died after she was stabbed 18 times during what was described as a “sustained and violent assault” inside her own home at Knowsley Heights in Huyton on April 15 this year.

The gravely injured 32-year-old told neighbours who came to her aid “my fella stabbed me” before ultimately collapsing outside the block of flats where she lived, her clothes heavily stained with blood.

She then asked a police officer “Am I gonna die?” as she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance.

Her partner Michael Ormandy is currently on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of her murder.

But he denies this charge, claiming to have acted in self-defence during the incident.

The 34-year-old, of Linacre Road in Litherland, was arrested on a canal towpath only minutes after Ms Campbell’s death, having thrown his mobile phone into the water.

Referring to a series of violent rows between the couple during a night out in Liverpool city centre three days earlier, he told PCs: “This wouldn’t have happened if you did your job last week”

Jurors were yesterday played a recording of a phone call which Ormandy made to Merseyside Police's 101 non-emergency number at 12.14am on April 16, less than two hours after the altercation in Ms Campbell's flat.

He was heard to tell the operator: “It’s to do with the incident that just happened in Huyton, the stabbing in Huyton. I'm the one that did it, I'm the one that did it, in self defence.

“Are you going to listen to me or what? The police are at my flat now. If they touch my dogs, I’m going to start killing police officers, one by one.

“I'm going to start shooting, if anything happens to my dogs. I'll start killing, one by one. My dogs are my babies.”