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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Pat Hurst

Acid attack murder trial hears of ‘fear, love and lies’

PA Media

A woman accused of the shooting and acid murder of her Tinder date told a jury she was too “petrified” to tell police her new boyfriend was the killer, but went on holiday to Jamaica with him days later.

Rachel Fulstow, 37, said the first she knew Liam Smith, 38, had come to harm was when her boyfriend Michael Hillier, 39, turned up at her home after the fatal attack.

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