‘I don’t remember stabbing her 70 times’

An ex-soldier accused of murdering his Britain’s Got Talent star girlfriend apologised to her family for killing her as he insisted he has no memory of stabbing her more than 70 times. Desmond Sylva, 41, is said to have ‘butchered’ Simonne Kerr, knifing her repeatedly to her face, neck and body after she went to see him at his flat in Clapham, south London, last August 15. Jurors have heard the 31-year-old ‘did not stand a chance’ during the frenzied…

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