A REJECTED LOVER VICIOUSLY STABBED TO DEATH THE YO

A REJECTED LOVER VICIOUSLY STABBED TO DEATH THE YOUNG MOTHER
OF HIS FIVE-MONTH-OLD ‘MIRACLE BABY’, THE OLD BAILEY HEARD ON
WEDNESDAY.

GRAHAM MURRAY, 24, HELD HIS GIRLFRIEND’S HEAD IN HIS HANDS AND
TOLD HER ‘I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH’,AFTER STABBING HER EIGHT TIMES WITH A
KITCHEN KNIFE, THE COURT HEARD.

BUT ONE OF THE STAB WOUNDS ENTERED PAULA MAY’S HEART AND SHE
DIED ON THE WAY TO HOSPITAL.

MR MICHAEL WORSELEY, QC, TOLD THE JURY THE COUPLE HAD KNOWN
EACHOTHER FOR SOME TIME AND WERE HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WHEN PAULA,21,
BECAME PREGNANT.

‘THEY WERE BOTH OVERJOYED ABOUT IT,’ HE SAID.

THE BABY, DANIEL, WAS BORN NINE WEEKS PREMATURELY IN JUNE LAST
YEAR, SUFFERING FROM RENAL FAILURE, UNDEVELOPED LUNGS AND FLUID ON THE
BRAIN.

HE RECOVERED AFTER BEING GIVEN ONLY A 1-10 CHANCE OF SURVIVAL
AND THE ‘MIRACLE BABY’ FEATURED WITH HIS RADIENT MOTHER IN THE BROMLEY
TIMES.

PAULA WAS ABLE TO GET A COUNCIL FLAT WHICH THE COUPLE SHARED
IN SOUTHOVER, DOWNHAM ESTATE, BROMLEY, KENT.

‘IN EARLY SEPTEMBER THE TWO DECIDED TO WED AND FIXED A DATE,’
SAID MR WORSELEY.

BUT, HE ADDED, PAULA SOON BEGAN TO CHANGE HER MIND.

‘THE
RELATIONSHIP ON HER SIDE BECAME COOLER.

BUT HE STILL WANTED HER AND
BECAME JEALOUS AND POSSESSSIVE OF HER.

‘
PAULA LEFT THE FLAT ON 30TH OCTOBER [AND THE COURT HEARD THAT
MURRAY TOOK AN OVERDOSE OF PARACETOMOL – ‘TO MAKE HER FEEL SORRY FOR
HIM’ SAID COUNSEL.

] AND ON NOVEMBER 1 HE LEFT AND MOVED IN WITH HIS
MOTHER AT LEIGH CRESCENT, NEW ADDINGTON.

CROYDON.

THE REJECTION CONTINUED WHEN PAULA WAS GIVEN AN INTERIM
INJUNCTION BY A COUNTY COURT, SO THAT MURRAY SHOULD NOT MOLEST HER IN
ANY WAY.

BUT, SAID MR WORSELEY, THE RELATIONSHIP CONTINUED AT THE
BROMLEY FLAT.

‘HE WENT ROUND TO SEE HER, THEY EVEN SLEPT TOGETHER,
THOUGH AFTERWARDS HE WOULD RETURN TO HIS MOTHER’S.

‘
THIS STRANGE ARRANGEMENT CONTINUED UNTIL NOVEMBER 13, ‘THE
FATAL DAY’, THE COURT HEARD.

PAULA HAD JUST HAD HER HAIR DONE BY A FRIEND WHO LEFT WHEN
MURRAY ARRIVED AT THE FLAT.

MURRAY LATER TOLD POLICE HE WANTED PAULA VERY BADLY AND THEY
ARGUED WHEN HE SAID HE WANTED TO SEE HER.

HE WENT ON: ‘I SAT ON THE FLOOR WITH MY HEAD ON MY KNEES AND
SAID ‘CAN’T YOU SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING TO ME?’ BUT SHE KEPT SAYING GET
OUT, GET OUT.

‘ I COULDN’T STAND THE THOUGHT OF NOT BEING WITH HER AND
I WENT OUT TO THE KITCHEN AND PICKED UP THE KNIFE.

‘
MURRAY TOLD THE OFFICERS THAT HE THREW THE KNIFE AWAY BUT
PAULA CONTINUED TO ORDER HIM OUT OF THE FLAT.

‘I LOST CONTROL.

I WENT OUT, PICKED UP THE KNIFE AGAIN AND
STARTED SWINGING IT AT HER.

.

.

‘THE NEXT THING THERE WAS BLOOD.

SHE
CALLED OUT ‘I LOVE YOU , I LOVE YOU.

”
HE ADDED: ‘I PUT HER HEAD IN MY HANDS AND SAID ‘I LOVE YOU TOO
MUCH.

‘ I TOLD HER I WAS SORRY.

‘
HE CRIED: ‘MY GOD.

WHAT HAVE I DONE?’
MR WORSELEY TOLD THE COURT: ‘THERE IS NO DISPUTE THAT THIS
DEFENDANT KILLED THE GIRL.

‘
HE WENT ON: ‘HE STABBED HER A TOTAL OF ABOUT EIGHT TIMES, THE
FATAL WOUND BEING INTO THE HEART – THAT KILLED HER.

‘
MURRAY, A VAN DELIVERY DRIVER, DENIED MURDER.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS.