'I've done it. I've smashed her head in. Oppsie xx!': The NWAS worker who tried to murder her boss

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A former ambulance service worker who tried to kill her boss in a brutal hammer attack texted a friend afterwards saying "I've smashed her head in.

Oppsie xx!" Stacey Smith, 46, "ambushed" her manager at North West Ambulance Service, Michala Morton, outside her home in Dukinfield, Tameside, after simmering resentment over her and her wife's shift patterns boiled over.

Smith showed a "significant degree of planning" by looking up Ms Morton's address online via her victim's husband's business, and then checking her rota to determine when she would be leaving for work, a court heard.

She then attacked "unsuspecting and defenceless" Ms Morton "without warning", striking her repeatedly with the weapon. READ MORE: She went to her car - then her life changed forever The first blow was aimed at her head and broke her wrist as she put up her hand to protect herself.