Life sentence for Theresa's 'flippant' killer

Apr 5 2005 By The Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Mr Campbell said she later came downstairs again after hearing Mrs Simpson say: "You're scaring me. Just stop it. Just go."

Miss Drane saw Walton had a knife in his back pocket and she was able to take it from him before going back up to bed again.

Mrs Simpson's teenage daughter, Charlotte, noticed nothing untoward when she went out to do her milk round later that morning, but after returning home and going back into her bedroom she heard her mother moaning.

When she looked out of her window she saw Walton at the doorway of the shed and went outside.

"As she approached the shed she heard Paul Walton say something like `you're mine forever'," said Mr Campbell.

"Charlotte called out `Mum' and she heard her mother's voice from within the shed saying `Oh no, don't hurt her, please don't hurt her'."

When Walton opened the door further the teenager saw him holding a knife and could see his top covered in blood.

Mr Campbell described how Walton, of Hopkinson Road, Sheepridge, then chased after Charlotte, still wielding the knife, and caught her as she tried to jump over a garden wall.

He punched her and grabbed her by the hair before telling her to go away before he killed her.

Mrs Simpson managed to stagger back into her home where her eldest son, Jamie, and her friend found her lying motionless at the foot of the stairs.

Paramedics were unable to resuscitate her at the scene and she was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.