Overview

• Prosecutors told jurors Carless was on bail for an alleged November strangulation when she saw Price’s Tinder profile and, fueled by cocaine and alcohol, took a taxi to Norton Canes before the stabbing
• CCTV footage played in court showed her arriving shortly after 3 am and stalking Price around his parents’ conservatory ahead of the fatal attack
• Forensic experts said the blade penetrated 12 cm into Price’s chest, cutting through skin, muscle, rib cartilage, lung tissue and his heart
• Carless, 33, denies murdering her ex-partner, possessing an offensive weapon and the earlier counts of intentional strangulation and assault
• A friend testified that Price had warned he was afraid of Carless and Staffordshire Police had assessed him as at very high risk of domestic abuse