A controlling boyfriend who stabbing his girlfriend 54 times with two knives after falsely accusing her of cheating on him has been found guilty of murder.
Ian Bennett launched a ferocious attack on mum-of-two Kerry Woolley and then roped his mother into a "cowardly" plot to hide his sickening crime.
Bennett, 38, of Moordown Avenue, Solihull, was found guilty of murdering 38-year-old Ms Woolley by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court this afternoon, Tuesday, December 7.
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His mother, Lynda Bennett, 63, also of Moordown Avenue, was found guilty of assisting an offender and doing an act intended to pervert the course of justice.
The jury took less than an hour to reach their verdicts on the pair.
Judge Melbourne Inman QC will sentence them tomorrow
The victim was found dead at her home in Westley Heights, off Warwick Road in Olton, Solihull, on July 12, 2020.
She was stabbed after Bennett, described in court as acting in a "paranoid, obsessive and controlling way", had accused her of sleeping with a woman they met at a Solihull wine bar.
Caroline Goodwin QC, prosecuting, said the defendant would not let the matter go and they had an argument during which he threw her phone at the TV.
She said the attack on the victim was "brutal and deliberate" with the majority of the injuries inflicted on her neck area.
She said there was evidence of defensive injuries and Bennett had also...
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