A BETHNAL GREEN WOMAN WHO STABBED HER LOVER THROU

A BETHNAL GREEN WOMAN WHO STABBED HER LOVER THROUGH THE
HEART, WALKED FREE FROM THE OLD BAILEY ON WEDNESDAY AFTER A JURY
ACQUITTED HER OF MURDER.

THE NEW YEARS EVE KILLING WAS THE END OF A ‘SORDID AND
MISERABLE’ STORY, SAID MR TIMOTHY CASSEL, QC, PROSECUTING.

PATRICIA TYDEMAN, 34, FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE WHEN HER BOYFIREND
ROBERT WEBB, A DRUG ADDICT, TRIED TO STRANGLE HER IN THEIR FLAT IN
JAMES HAMMETT HOUSE, RAVENSCROFT STREET, BETHNAL GREEN.

SHE SURVIVED BECAUSE WEBB HAD BROKEN HIS WRIST DAYS BEFORE
AFTER TAKING AN OVERDOSE BUT HAD NOT BOTHERED TO HAVE MEDICAL
TREATMENT.

‘IT WOULD BE HIM HERE NOW IF HIS WRIST WASN’T BAD’, SHE LATER
TOLD POLICE.

WEBB, 30, WEBB WOKE UP AT 3 AM IN A RAGE AFTER TAKING ENOUGH

BARBITUATES ‘TO KILL A HORSE’, SHE SAID.

HE ATTACKED HER, PUNCHING

AND KICKING AND SAYING HE WOULD KILL HER.

AS SHE STRUGGLED TO ESCAPE SHE GRABBED FOR THE KNIFE IN HIS
HAND.

‘THE KNIFE JUST WENT INTO HIM.

I CAN HEAR IT NOW’ SHE TOLD
POLICE.

‘HE PULLED IT OUT AND SAID ”NOW I AM GOING TO KILL YOU”.

BUT WEBB COLLAPSED AND WAS DEAD BY THE TIME THE AMBULANCE AND
POLICE ARRIVED.

THE JURY HEARD THAT TWO OTHER DRUG ADDICTS IN THE FLAT IGNORED
HER SCREAMS FOR HELP AND REFUSED TO ENTER THE BEDROOM.

‘HE WAS ALWAYS BEATING ME UP,’ TYDEMAN TOLD DETECTIVES.

‘I KNOW
HE WAS BAD TO ME BUT I STILL LOVE HIM.

‘
SHE HAD PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO MURDERING HIM.

ENDS.