Star killer tried to commit suicide

A former soldier accused of slashing his Britain’s Got Talent star girlfriend’s throat said he did not tell her he had tried to kill himself less than a week earlier. Desmond Sylva, 41, stabbed Simonne Kerr more than 70 times 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 attack. Sylva, who had previously…