Man ‘rapped’ about killing somebody hours earlier than stabbing lone girl to demise

A person who stabbed a lone mother-of-two to demise in her house as her youngsters slept upstairs rapped about killing somebody simply hours earlier than the cold-blooded incident, police stated.

Anthony Stinson, 31, got here throughout Charlotte Wilcock on the night of March 3 as she smoked on the doorstep of her house in Blackburn, Lancs. Moments later, Stinson kicked and stabbed her to demise in her hallway with a Stanley knife.

Ms Wilcock’s 15-month-old daughter was left alone upstairs till law enforcement officials found her the subsequent day. The 31-year-old, who was a stranger to her killer, was discovered useless behind her entrance door.

When police arrested him, Stinson, of Queen Victoria Street, Blackburn, stated he had been affected by psychosis when he attacked Ms Wilcock and claimed to have seen the Devil.

However, detectives seized his cellphone and found he recorded a video hours earlier than the unprovoked assault. The video, made by Stinson and a buddy, confirmed the defendant rapping and describing somebody being killed.

CCTV footage additionally confirmed that quarter-hour earlier, he made dialog with a neighborhood shopkeeper. He was shopping for alcohol and cigarettes on the time.

Stinson pleaded responsible to Ms Wilcock’s homicide at Preston Crown Court on Monday. He can be sentenced on Thursday.

Speaking exterior of court docket, detective chief inspector Mark Haworth-Oates, of Lancashire Constabulary, stated: “On March 3 this year Stinson approached Charlotte’s address and, for reasons known only to him, launched a brutal attack on her on the doorstep.

“He slashed at her body numerous times in the ferocious assault – inflicting well over 50 individual injuries in the process, many with the use of a Stanley knife – as well as punching and kicking her.

“Charlotte had never met Stinson before that night and had no personal connection to him – she was merely sat on her own doorstep having a cigarette.

“She should have been safe and could never have foreseen what was about to happen.

“It is clear from speaking to Charlotte’s family that she was very much-loved, and her death has left a huge void in the lives of those who knew her, not least her two children who will now grow up without their mother.

“It is such a needless loss of a life in truly awful circumstances.”