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Stephanie Wareham

Jury retires to consider verdicts in Christmas Day stabbing murder trial

Father-of-six Louis Price was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Christmas Day last year (Family handout/PA) - (PA Media)

The jury in the trial of a “jealous” woman accused of stabbing her ex-partner to death on Christmas Day after seeing his profile on a dating app has retired to consider its verdicts.

Kirsty Carless, 33, is accused of plunging 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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