Overview

• The 34-year-old testified that he took a bulletproof vest to a Southport hotel on 15 April and said he typically carried a large kitchen knife for protection linked to drug dealing, though he claimed he forgot the knife at the hotel that night.
• He told jurors he left the hotel to deliver drugs before going to Campbell’s flat, alleging she produced a knife and attacked him, after which he says he punched her and pushed her onto a couch in self-defence.
• A Home Office post-mortem found 27 incised wounds, including 18 stab wounds and nine slashes, and a pathologist described severe force with injuries consistent with attempts to fend off an attack.
• Campbell, 32, emerged from her flat shouting that she had been stabbed, told neighbours “my fella stabbed me,” asked paramedics “am I gonna die?,” and was pronounced dead in the early hours of 16 April.
• Police arrested Ormandy minutes later on a canal towpath and recovered a phone from the water, and the jury has seen CCTV and heard accounts of earlier altercations on 12 April as well as his explanation that a “Hitman” neck tattoo was a former fighting name.