Chilling footage has emerged of the moments before and after a university student was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend in a gym car park.
Molly McLaren, 23, had grown increasingly concerned about Joshua Stimpson following her around and posting messages about her online after they broke up last summer.
Despite having been given a warning by police, Stimpson followed her to the gym and stabbed her to death in her car two weeks after their split.
The jury in the case were today shown CCTV footage of Miss McLaren’s last moments, as she worked out in a gym in Chatham, Kent.
Footage shows the moments before student Molly McLaren was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend. He followed her to a gym where she is shown confronting him
The couple split two weeks before the stabbing. McLaren feared Stimpson was following her
Stimpson is seen prowling around in the staircase of the fitness centre, before entering the exercise room where she is working out.
Miss McLaren is seen speaking to him and the court has heard she asked him: ‘Are you following me now?’
Prosecutors said she also messaged her mother, who told her to come straight home, and WhatsApped her friends, saying: ‘Feel like I’m f****** looking over my shoulder all the time’.
Minutes later, Stimpson attacked her in the car park and she died from her stab wounds. He now admits manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but denies murder.
The jury were shown footage of him with his gym kit now stained in blood as he is arrested by police.
Separate footage shows the moments after the attack, when Stimpson was arrested, his gym clothes now stained with blood
Police arrived on the scene to find Miss McLaren very seriously injured. A witness had tried to stop the attack
Prosecutors believe Stimpson, from Wouldham, near Rochester, Kent, had been monitoring Miss McLaren’s social media posts in order to pinpoint her location and stalk her.
In messages to a relative, she said he was ‘manipulative and turning nasty’, adding: ‘I am actually scared about what he might do. I’m scared he might hurt me. I don’t know how on edge he is.’
Exactly a week after she had taken her concerns to the police, Stimpson tracked Miss McLaren to the busy Chatham Dockside Outlet, before ripping open the door of her Citroen and attacking her.
Benjamin Morton, bravely tried to pull Stimpson off his victim and even slammed his leg in the car door to stop him. But Stimpson moved inside the car and continued the attack.
Mr Morton later told police Stimpson was ‘continuously’ stabbing her in the head and neck, adding: ‘It was like a frenzy, he was doing it again and again’.
The jury have seen this picture of the bloody kitchen knife used in the attack
Miss McLaren was attacked in the driver’s seat of her Citroen as she tried to leave the area
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