THIS is the moment a killer was arrested on a canal path after knifing his girlfriend 27 times then claiming: “She must have stabbed herself”.
Rebekah Campbell, 32, was attacked by Michael Ormandy, 34, at her home in Huyton, Merseyside.
She ran out into the street screaming “I’ve been stabbed” before she collapsed outside the block of flats.
As emergency crews battled to save her life, Rebekah asked an officer: “Am I gonna die?”
The cop replied: “You are hurt, but you are in the best place now.”
Rebekah tragically could not be saved and was declared dead the following day.
Former cage fighter Ormandy – who has a tattoo on his neck reading “The Hitman” has been jailed for life with a minimum of 24 years for murder.
Footage released by police shows officers closing in on the monster after he fled the scene of the bloodbath.
Ormandy had called officers and claimed to be wearing a “suicide vest” while threatening to “blow everyone up”.
He was eventually snared on a canal path as the footage shows officers approaching him.
The killer callously told police Rebekah “must have stabbed herself”.
Liverpool Crown Court heard in the hours leading up to the killing, he had sex with a woman in a hotel he previously met at a pub.
He then made his way to Rebekah’s home where she was on the phone with pal Faye Henderson.
Faye heard Rebekah shout “go away, get out Mick” followed by a “loud bang and puppies barking in the background”.
David McLachlan KC, prosecuting, said: “Thereafter, Faye Henderson did not hear anything else. So concerned was Faye Henderson, that she rang 999.
“Faye Henderson was right to be concerned about her friend, because, inside that flat in Huyton, on the fifth floor, Michael Ormandy, the man in the dock, stabbed his partner Rebekah Campbell many, many times.
“In reality, he stabbed her to death.”
A post mortem revealed she had suffered 18 stab wounds and nine slash wounds.
Her cause of death was recorded as stab wounds to the chest.
Ormandy and Rebekah had been together for around four months prior to her death but she complained the relationship “was not going well”.
She also told a friend she was “ready to end it”, the court heard.
One pal claimed Ormandy would “call Rebekah a s**g or just stand at the bar and stare at her”.
On April 12, Rebekah was said to have thrown a shoe at her boyfriend and slapped him while out drinking, jurors were told.
Ormandy later struck her face after a second row erupted on the night out.
Following his arrest on suspicion of murder, Ormandy told police she had screamed “I’ve got a knife” when he had entered her home.
He claimed he managed to disarm her but Rebekah remained on top of him and was “attacking him”.
Ormandy said he responded by punching her “in self-defence” before pushing her on the couch.
Referring to the April 12 row, he suggested if the police had “arrested Rebekah on this date, there would have been no further incident which led to him acting in self-defence.”
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Detective Superintendent Ben Dyer, who led the investigation, said:
“First and foremost, my thoughts remain with Rebekah’s family and friends as they continue to grieve their tragic loss.
“They have shown dignity and courage throughout the trial, which must have been incredibly difficult as Ormandy chose to deny the offence despite the overwhelming evidence against him.
“Thankfully, the jury saw through his obvious lies and I hope his sentencing can now bring Rebekah’s family some comfort.
“To claim his vicious attack was in self-defence and then trying to paint himself as a victim is utterly appalling. Ormandy will now rightly spend a significant amount of time behind bars and our communities are safer with him removed from the streets.”
