Victim Tom Cressman’s mother told how Jane Andrews
Victim Tom Cressman’s mother told how Jane Andrews sent her copies of e-mails between her son and another woman only hours before she stabbed him to death.
Barbara Cressman said ‘Tommy’ rang her on Saturday, September 16, to tell her to throw away the ‘filth’.
The mail eventually arrived on September 27 having been redirected from France to her home in Surrey.
It is believed Mr Cressman died either late on September 15 or early the next morning.
The package included e-mails between Tom Cressman and a woman in the United States and other letters.
Mrs Cressman said: ‘I had no idea they would be letters like this.
‘I had had a warning from Tom that Jane was going to send me a bundle of filth and would I please bin them and not read it.
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On a letter mentioning Mr Cressman’s previous girlfriend Tina, Andrews scrawled: ‘Harry [Tom’s father] wanted to give Tina [pnds stlg] 30,000 to pay off Tina’s debts.
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Mrs Cressman said Tom wanted her to live with them in a new house they were looking for in the Cotswolds.
‘He said Jane will have to get used to it.
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She described Andrews as looking ‘like a thundercloud’ on the return from their holiday in the South of France.
Her grandson David Cressman, Tom Cressman’s nephew, said Andrews kept on making ‘cutting remarks’ throughout the car journey to Nice airport on Friday, September 15.
‘There was a lot of friction in the front between them.
She was saying Tom had wasted her time, in the context of having wasted two years of her life and the relationship was not going anywhere.
‘Most of the car journey she was on and off the phone much of it was the same.
She would say how it was a waste of her time and it was the same old story.
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At the airport Andrews went missing and reappeared a couple of minutes before takeoff, the 21 year-old university student said.
‘Tom boarded the plane by himself.
She was pretty unhappy.
She just came up to me and asked if Tom had already boarded the plane.
‘She just uttered something along the lines of “typical” and shrugged her shoulders.
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He said he never saw Mr Cressman hit Jane Andrews.
The trial continues.
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