Stretford, was heard ‘crashing’ about upstairs as the woman tried to sleep.Checking to see if he was OK, the woman found the bathroom window open and some items knocked on the floor, and assumed Palmer had jumped out of the window.
The woman then went to the front door to find him walking through with a limp and sought to calm him down, but Palmer began strangling her then placed a cushion over her face, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.Appearing to calm down, he got off her and the pair went downstairs, only for him to launched a further attack on her with a pair of scissors after asking her for a cold drink of water.Palmer tried to stab the woman, then choke her by putting his knee on her throat telling her: “you need to die, the angels.
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