A man who walked free from court for pouring vodka over his girlfriend and threatening to set her on fire went on to brutally murder her two weeks later.
Robert Massey subjected Jacqueline Forest to vile abuse in mid-August after attempting to kick down her front door. By the end of the month, he had strangled her to death before stabbing her body and scrawling profanities over her skin with a pen.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this week that the 49-year-old victim had been in a relationship with the defendant since the summer of 2020 and he had spent time living at her home on Piele Road in Haydock. On August 15 this year, Massey was handed an 18-month community order at Liverpool Magistrates' Court after assaulting her and banned from attending her address for 28 days.
