An OnlyFans model has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering her partner by stabbing him through the heart at their home. Self-confessed 'Fake Barbie' Abigail White, 24, who earned up to £50k as a pioneer on the adult website, had "murderous intent" when she plunged a knife into the heart of her victim Bradley Lewis, 24, the jury decided.
She carried out the attack after the couple, who had three children together, were seen on CCTV rowing in a pub. The trial heard White 'thrust' the knife into his chest, but she claimed she picked up the blade to "shock and scare" him and did not realise what she had done until it was too late.
She had already admitted manslaughter but denied intentionally killing him. But a jury today (Friday) rejected her defence of diminished responsibility and found her guilty of murder. At the end of the trial, the CPS publicly released chilling audio footage that had been played to the jury, where White is heard saying: "one of us is gonna end up dead" and "I fully believe I am capable of killing him."
She is also heard saying she can "only get the truth out of him" when "I f**king stab him". She says: "He only tells me the truth when he thinks I am going to f***ing kill him. Like when I get a knife out. Like when I f**king stab him."
During the trial she said he had 'never intended' to stab him but admitted to initially lying to police about the attack. The couple had been arguing about an earlier drunken fight with friends while visiting a local pub.
She claimed she was angry at Bradley for 'failing to stand up for her' in the pub row - which had seen her punched to the floor.
She told the jury: "We were arguing, and then he was pushing me a bit. I went into the kitchen and saw a knife on the side. I picked it up, and walked back to Brad.
"I went over to him to shock him, to scare him with a knife. Before I knew it, I’d stabbed him."
After the attack, which White claims to be unable to remember, Brad looked 'in shock' and began spurting blood. She added: "It was already over before I noticed. I helped him take his clothes off (to stem the bleeding), we did it together.
"I helped him move into the kitchen. I remember using his top on the wound when we were in the kitchen. He just kind of sat down, and then his body lay down and he was on his back.”
When questioned by police, White initially claimed that Brad had inflicted the injury upon himself. Admitting that was a lie to jurors, she added: "I wish I had told the truth from the beginning. I was scared about what was going to happen to me, to Brad and our children."
The jury was also told about the couple's "toxic" relationship, including periods where both partners had been unfaithful prior to the fatal attack at their home in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, on March 25 this year.
The trial also heard Bradley tell a pal "I'm dead when I get home" just minutes before she stabbed him to death. He made the haunting premonition after White accused him of 'letting a man hit her' during a row at the Horseshoe pub in Kingswood.
A jury was shown CCTV footage of White screaming in the face of Bradley in a pub beer garden just minutes before the attack. Jurors also read text messages from White threatening to kill herself if Bradley left her and threatening to stab him if he sees another girl. One said: "I swear to God, I'll stab you."
Another message from White to Bradley read: "I'll stab myself" and she later tells him: "Get in that car with Anna and I'll get you stabbed". Another message from White to Bradley read: "I'm going to stab you in the f***ing neck."
The trial also heard how White would feature on the adult website OnlyFans either "naked or semi naked", on her own or with Bradley. The jury was told she made £50k in the first year until more people became aware and more people were doing it and her earnings dropped.
The court was told Bradley knew she was doing it and had no problem doing it.
Dr John Sandford, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, said he believed White has a personality disorder but said the facts of the case suggest she was “aware of what she was doing” around the time of the attack.
“What’s the root cause of this offence?” he told the jury. “In my opinion it is the dysfunctional relationship from which it arose.”
Dr Sandford later added: “I think it is fair to say she had difficulty controlling her emotions and difficulty controlling anger.”
Trial judge Mr Justice Fraser jailed White for life and told her she would spend at least 18 years in prison for murdering Mr Lewis.
“It was his misfortune that he was in a relationship with you because you are a controlling person, and you are also very violent,” he said. “You had stabbed him on previous occasions to the one when you actually killed him.
“You threatened to kill him regularly and he told his friends that he was scared of you, and he wanted to leave you. He could not bring himself to do so and whenever the subject came up, you would threaten to kill yourself.
“You also threatened to kill him and other people he loved, including his mother, and other women with whom he had relations over the years you were together. At one point you threatened to destroy everything he loved, and you threatened to stab him in the face.”
The judge said White had previously stabbed Mr Lewis in the leg and the arm and that he only told the truth when she threatened him.
“All of this behaviour was an attempt to control him. The text messages and WhatsApp messages recorded by you make for chilling reading,” the judge said. “You demanded his almost constant attention, and your messages show that unless he answered you immediately and did what you wanted you would become furious and increasingly volatile.
“Your relationship was described by various witnesses, including your friends, as toxic. I would add to that term, as highly volatile and violent. Both the prosecution and defence say that you loved Bradley but at times you also hated him.”
Lesley Ness, of the CPS, said: “The prosecution’s case was that Abigail White stabbed Bradley Lewis in anger, intending to seriously hurt or kill him, following an argument in which he said he would leave her. The CPS worked with the police to build a compelling case that looked at Miss White’s actions both on the night of Mr Lewis’s death and in the period leading up to it.
“When presented with this evidence the jury concluded that Abigail White was guilty of the murder of Bradley Lewis. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Bradley Lewis at this difficult time.”
