A woman was stabbed to death as she sat on the toilet after her boyfriend ‘lay in wait’ at her flat for three hours following a drunken row, prosecutors allege.
David Liptrot, 56, and Caroline Gore had been out drinking together, but following a row, she left him. Mr Liptrot searched for her, and went into women's toilets to find her, a court heard.
He then went back to her flat in Wigan. Three hours later, Ms Gore, 43, returned. It appeared, a jury heard, she had been sitting on the toilet when she was stabbed five times by Mr Liptrot.
She was left with neck, chest and abdomen wounds, jurors were told. Mr Liptrot, from Chorley, Lancashire, left the flat 15 minutes later.
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