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Jordan Reynolds

Woman accused of murdering ex-partner on Christmas Day ‘not a violent person’

Louis Price died in the early hours of Christmas Day (Family Handout/PA) - (PA Media)

A woman who is accused of murdering her ex-partner on Christmas Day said she has no recollection of stabbing him and added she is “not a violent person”.

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 dating profile on Tinder, Stafford Crown Court heard.

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