We Just Read: Man ‘killed girlfriend after eating cannabis cake’
A man was recorded on a mobile phone as he stabbed, strangled, and ran over his girlfriend during a psychotic episode after eating a cannabis brownie, a court has heard.
Lauren Bloomer, 25, [former Turves Green Girls school pupil] was stabbed more than 30 times and died at the couple’s home in Tamworth, in November 2020.
Jake Notman denies murder, saying he did not form the necessary intent due to his mental state.
The prosecution said it was believed he had suffered an adverse reaction. However, opening the case at Stafford Crown Court, prosecutor Deborah Gould said that did “not provide a defence” in law.
Ms Gould said university student Ms Bloomer had started recording on her phone “like something out of the movie Scream” after seeking advice on the internet about the “bad weed trip” suffered by her boyfriend.
The jury was told the near-17-minute audio recording “captured the moments leading up to, including and after the murder” in the early hours of 20 November at their home on Bingley Avenue.
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