A woman was stabbed to death by her “manipulative and nasty” former boyfriend a week after complaining to police about him, a court was told.
Molly McLaren, 23, who lived in Cobham and was a student at the University of Kent, had broken up with a warehouse worker she met on the dating app Tinder, Maidstone crown court in Kent heard. Joshua Stimpson, 26, admits manslaughter but denies murder. The crown does not accept his plea of diminished responsibility. He attacked Ms McLaren in her car after following her from a gym in Chatham in June 2016. He remained at the scene of the killing, soaked in blood.
He had been spoken to by Kent police a week earlier when she complained after he harassed her on Facebook. Philip Bennetts, QC, for the prosecution, said that before going to the police she told a relative: “I am actually scared about what he might do. I’m scared he might hurt me. I don’t know how on edge he is.” The trial continues.