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Stephanie Wareham

‘Jealous’ woman stabbed ex-partner to death on Christmas Day, court hears

A “manipulative, emotionally volatile and jealous” woman stabbed her ex-partner in the heart on Christmas Day while on police bail for strangling him the month before he died, a court has heard.

Kirsty Carless, 33, was “fuelled by cocaine and alcohol” when she took a taxi from her home in Cannock, Staffordshire, to the address where 31-year-old Louis Price was living and plunged a kitchen knife into his chest after a friend had shown her his profile on a dating app, Stafford Crown Court was told.

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