‘Give me a hug – I’ve just killed my girlfriend’

An abusive partner knifed his partner to death then took a bus to his mother’s house because he ‘wanted a hug’, a court heard. Gavin Wilson, 42, stabbed 42-year-old Lynsey Smith to death in the flat they shared on Enfield Island Village in north London on 11 March last year, it is claimed. Wilson then went to his mum’s flat ‘seeming tearful and wanting a hug’, jurors heard, before returning home to ‘discover’ the body and call police. The couple…