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 mentioned.
Anthony Stinson, 31, got here throughout Charlotte Wilcock on the night of March three 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 cops found her the subsequent day. The 31-year-old, who was a stranger to her killer, was discovered lifeless behind her entrance door.
When police arrested him, Stinson, of Queen Victoria Road, Blackburn, mentioned he had been affected by psychosis when he attacked Ms Wilcock and claimed to have seen the Satan.
Nonetheless, detectives seized his cellphone and found he recorded a video hours earlier than the unprovoked assault. The video, made by Stinson and a good friend, confirmed the defendant rapping and describing somebody being killed.
CCTV footage additionally confirmed that 15 minutes 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 docket on Monday. He will likely be sentenced on Thursday.
Talking exterior of court docket, detective chief inspector Mark Haworth-Oates, of Lancashire Constabulary, mentioned: “On March three this 12 months Stinson approached Charlotte’s handle and, for causes recognized solely to him, launched a brutal assault on her on the doorstep.
“He slashed at her physique quite a few occasions within the ferocious assault – inflicting effectively over 50 particular person accidents within the course of, many with using a Stanley knife – in addition to punching and kicking her.
“Charlotte had by no means met Stinson earlier than that night time and had no private connection to him – she was merely sat on her personal doorstep having a cigarette.
“She ought to have been secure and will by no means have foreseen what was about to occur.
“It’s clear from chatting with Charlotte’s household that she was very much-loved, and her demise has left an enormous void within the lives of those that knew her, not least her two youngsters who will now develop up with out their mom.
“It’s such a pointless lack of a life in actually terrible circumstances.”