Man who knifed girlfriend 27 times was suspect in earlier assault

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A killer was named as a suspect in brutal assault mere months before he murdered his girlfriend in a violent attack. Michael Ormandy and his co-defendant left a man with a fractured skull around six months before 34-year-old Ormandy stabbed Rebekah Campbell to death.

Now, a woman who spoke to the Liverpool Echo about the tragic case has said "poor Rebekah might still be alive today" if Ormandy hadn't been on the scene. Rebekah was 32 when she died after being knifed 27 times inside her own flat at Knowsley Heights in Huyton in April this year.

Boyfriend Ormandy claimed to have acted in self-defence during the incident, despite suffering only a single cut to his hand during the altercation, requiring only minor treatment in hospital as a result. Rebekah was meanwhile le