A serial killer-obsessed murderer was a "manipulative weirdo" who was infatuated with movie murder doll Chucky during her childhood, old pals have said.
Former school friends of killer Shaye Groves have told of her macabre ways when she was a child, as the mum begins her life sentence for murder.
The 27-year-old was found guilty at Winchester Crown Court of killing her on-off boyfriend, Frankie Fitzgerald, 25, cutting his throat and stabbing him 17 times in the chest as he slept in July last year.