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Stephanie Wareham

‘Jealous’ woman who murdered ex on Christmas Day jailed for minimum of 25 years

Screengrab from handout bodyworn footage issued by Staffordshire Police of Kirsty Carless as she was arrested for murdering Louis Price (Staffordshire Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A “jealous” woman who stabbed her ex-partner in the heart on Christmas Day 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 December 25 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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