Ex-boyfriend Joshua Stimpson and
knife attack victim, Molly. Metro photo
McLaren.jpg
A dog walker has relived the terrifying
moment he tried to stop a student ’s ex -
boyfriend from killing her as he stabbed
her 75 times .
Benjamin Morton told Maidstone Crown
Court there was so much blood that the
killer’ s leg literally slipped out of his
hands as he tried to stop him.
Joshua Stimpson , 25, followed Molly
McLaren , 23 , to a gym in Chatham , Kent ,
and after laying in wait he carried out
the horrific attack as she sat in the front
seat of her car.
The couple had broken up on June 17 and
the attack happened 12 days later . Mr
Morton said he heard a ‘commotion ’ and
saw the attack in progress.
He said : “I stepped forward and could see
it wasn’t just a fight , that the woman
seemed to be being attacked by the man .
“ He seemed to have something in his
hand and she was at that point resisting.
He looked to be trying to overwhelm her,
to attack her in some way. She was trying
to defend herself.
“ He was clearly attacking her and she
had her hands up to try and stop him . I
moved forward to the car where I could
see that the man was attacking her with
a knife or some kind of implement.
“ It was quite small, not a big thing, but I
could see he was stabbing her with it .
There was already blood inside the car
and when I got right in front of the car, I
could see that he was stabbing her
towards her neck and her head .
“ She was trying to defend herself. It is not
something I have ever seen and hopefully
never will (again ). ”
He added : “The door hadn’t shut because
his leg was in the way so I moved around
and I grabbed his leg to see if I could pull
him .
“ His leg was covered in blood and my
hands slipped off . At that point, I stepped
back and didn ’ t know what else I could
do .”
When he saw Miss McLaren ’s injuries , he
realised she was not going to survive. He
added : “ I looked inside the car and I
could see that she had her throat cut . He
seemed determined to make sure she was
dead .
“ He wasn’ t stabbing her , he was cutting
at her throat at this point, just to make
sure she would never come back . ”
Molly suffered defensive injuries to her
arms as she desperately tried to fight off
Stimpson , beeping her horn and
screaming for help, she also had severe
trauma wounds to her neck .
Miss Molly McLaren , of Cobham , Surrey,
had told friends about Stimpson ’s weird
behaviour in the days before she was
killed .
He had started posting slurs about her
using drugs on Facebook , tagging her
relatives so they would read his lies, she
complained to police on June 22 and
wrote a letter of complaint to bosses at
Facebook .
Prosecutors claim Stimpson stalked her
social media posts in order to pinpoint
her location.
Stimpson has admitted killing McLaren
but denies murder. The trial continues .
( Metro)
Source: punchng
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