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Stephanie Wareham

Jealous woman who stabbed ex in heart on Christmas Day guilty of his murder

Carless (left) is seen on CCTV from the back of the house ‘stalking’ Mr Price (right) around the garden, possibly with a knife in hand, having already stabbed him in the chest (Staffordshire Police/PA) -

A “manipulative, emotionally volatile and jealous” woman who stabbed her ex-partner in the heart on Christmas Day while on police bail for strangling him the month before has been found guilty of his murder.

Kirsty Carless, 33, plunged a knife into 31-year-old 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 Tinder profile, Stafford Crown Court heard.

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