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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Stephanie Wareham

‘Jealous’ woman jailed for killing ex on Christmas Day after finding him on Tinder

Kirsty Carless, 33 - (Staffordshire Police/PA)

A “jealous” woman who stabbed her ex-partner in the heart after seeing his Tinder profile has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years.

Kirsty Carless, 33, plunged a knife into 31-year-old father-of-six Louis Price’s heart in the early hours of Christmas Day in 2024, in an attack “motivated by anger and jealousy, and fuelled by cocaine and alcohol” after a friend sent her a picture of his dating profile, a trial at Stafford Crown Court heard.

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