Overview
- Jurors were shown police footage of Michael Ormandy’s arrest in which, when told of an estimated 20 stab wounds, he replied, “She must have stabbed herself.”
- Prosecutors played a 101 call where Ormandy said he acted in self-defence and threatened police, claiming, “I’ve got a suicide vest and I’ll blow everyone up.”
- A Home Office pathologist testified that Rebekah Campbell suffered 27 knife injuries, including two to the heart and one to the lung, with arm wounds consistent with defensive injuries.
- CCTV traced Ormandy entering Knowsley Heights shortly before Campbell was seen bleeding and collapsing outside; she told officers, “He just walked in and stabbed me,” before dying in hospital.
- An unnamed woman testified that she had sex with Ormandy at a Southport hotel hours before the killing, with hotel and city CCTV mapping his movements that evening.