Rebekah Campbell, 32, was stabbed 18 times during a ‘sustained and violent assault’ inside her own home on April 15 this year
A father accused of murdering his girlfriend had sexual relations with another woman hours beforehand, then informed her he “was going to Liverpool to sort something out”.
Rebekah Campbell perished after being knifed 18 times during a “sustained and violent assault” within her own home at Knowsley Heights in Huyton on April 15 this year.
The critically wounded 32 year old informed neighbours who rushed to assist her “my fella stabbed me” before eventually collapsing outside the tower block where she resided, her clothing heavily soaked with blood. She then asked a police officer “am I gonna die?” as she was transported to hospital in an ambulance.
Her partner Michael Ormandy is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with her murder. However, he denies this allegation, maintaining he acted in self-defence during the incident, reports the Liverpool Echo.
The 34 year old, of Linacre Road in Litherland, was apprehended on a canal towpath moments after Ms Campbell’s death, having seemingly hurled his mobile phone into the water.
Referring to a series of violent altercations between the pair during an evening out in Liverpool city centre three days prior, he told PCs at this point: “This wouldn’t have happened if you did your job last week.”
Junior prosecution counsel Henry Riding presented a statement on behalf of a woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, to the jury on Tuesday. She outlined how she initially encountered Ormandy at the pub in Southport where the pair swapped phone numbers.
The woman stated: “We got on well. We didn’t text every day, but spoke about previous relationships. From October to January, I didn’t see Michael. We would go weeks without texting each other.
“Some time in the new year, Michael told me he had a new girlfriend. He seemed happy. He told me she did beauty treatments and lashes.”
The witness recounted that Ormandy subsequently messaged her on April 13, 2025 and “asked if she wanted to meet him in Liverpool”, though she refused as she was “too tired” due to work and was caring for her children. He then contacted her again on April 15, resulting in her visiting his room at the Prince of Wales Hotel in the town that afternoon.
She said of this: “I went into his room. We chatted for a short time. I had a vodka and orange. We slept together and had intercourse. He said he was going to see his kids at his mum’s. I left, went home then went to work.
“He texted me to say he was going to Liverpool to sort something out. He didn’t say what it was.”
The woman stated that she had then texted Ormandy “did you go back?”, referring to the hotel, the following morning, but received no reply. Her statement continued: “Over the following days, I saw on the Liverpool ECHO that a girl had been killed. I was shocked, as this was the same girl Michael had shown me a photo of earlier in the year. I felt sick and then learned that Michael had been charged with her murder.”
CCTV footage which was then played to the court showed Ormandy checking into the hotel at 1pm that day before the woman arrived at 3pm. The pair then departed together shortly after 4.30pm, being captured sharing a kiss outside before parting ways, with the defendant later seen returning in a taxi at 7pm.
David McLachlan KC told a jury of nine men and three women during the prosecution’s opening on Monday that Ms Campbell was at home at her flat on the evening of April 15, 2025 when Ormandy attended the address. Faye Henderson, who was speaking to the deceased on the phone at this time, reported that her friend shouted “go away, get out Mick” before she heard a “loud bang” and the sound of puppies barking, at which stage the line “went quiet”.
Ormandy was then filmed departing the building once more as Ms Campbell emerged from her flat crying out “I’ve been stabbed”. After collapsing outside, she subsequently informed neighbours who rushed to assist her: “My fella stabbed me.”
Whilst being taken to Aintree Hospital by ambulance, Ms Campbell questioned paramedics “am I gonna die?” Despite one police officer comforting her that she was “hurt but in the best place”, she was eventually declared dead in the early hours of April 16.
The incident reportedly occurred amid a relationship which “wasn’t going well”, with Ms Campbell allegedly “ready to end it”. This followed a confrontation on the evening of April 12, when she reportedly hurled a shoe at her partner and struck him whilst they were drinking at Revolver bar on Mathew Street.
A second “heated incident” then broke out between the pair later that evening close to Beer Engine on Hardman Street, with the victim observed “kicking out” at Ormandy before he hit her in the face. She was reportedly left weeping after tumbling to the ground and sustaining a black eye from this strike.
After his detention on a canal towpath, Ormandy allegedly informed officers “this wouldn’t have happened if you did your job last week”. A mobile phone was later retrieved from the water after Ormandy had seemingly “tried to ditch” the device.
Under questioning, Ormandy recounted the incident on April 12, stating that “everyone was drunk, but Rebekah was more out of control than the others” and remembered her having “had slapped him across the face”. He claimed to have “struck out in self defence” when she attacked him again.
Regarding the night of Ms Campbell’s death, he said that she had instantly yelled “I’ve got a knife” as he entered the property and alleged he saw such a weapon in her right hand. After apparently trying to disarm her, he described how his girlfriend “remained on top of him and was attacking him” and that he “responded by punching her to her body in self-defence” before he managed to “able to push her on to the couch”.
A Home Office post-mortem examination later revealed that Ms Campbell had suffered a total of 27 “incised wounds” during a “sustained, violent assault”, consisting of 18 stab wounds and nine slash wounds, primarily “concentrated on the left side of the body”. A pathologist concluded that this was “in keeping with the use of severe force”, with injuries on her left arm also deemed “indicative of defence injuries as she tried to fend off an attack”.
Ormandy, who is represented by Nick Johnson KC and Daniel Travers, denies one count of murder. The trial continues.
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