A 34-YEAR-OLD man with a history of violence towards former girlfriends will be jailed for life today after he admitted murdering a Huddersfield mother-of- four.

Theresa Simpson, 35, suffered a fatal knife wound to her heart in a violent confrontation with Paul Walton at her home at Roundway, Honley, last June.

The shocking attack was discovered by one of her teenage daughters.

A court heard yesterday how Walton then chased after the terrified youngster.

It also heard how he carried out an unprovoked attack on an unwitting member of the public at Huddersfield bus station later that morning.

After the fatal stabbing Walton admitted the killing in a series of text messages and phone calls and even sent one text to his victim saying he hoped she was dead.

The attack, which took place in a garden shed used as a den by her youngest son, happened in the early hours of the morning after Mrs Simpson and Walton had met by chance in a Huddersfield nightclub.

Prosecutor Nicholas Campbell QC told Bradford Crown Court yesterday how Walton was already subject to a community rehabilitation order for offences of violence and harassment towards a previous partner when he met Mrs Simpson in 2003.

Mr Campbell described the couple's relationship as stormy. A week before the killing Walton moved back to his parents' home as he had done on a number of previous occasions.

After the chance meeting in the Revolution nightspot, Walton was escorted from the premises after some trouble, but later he shared a taxi back to Mrs Simpson's home with her and a female friend.

Walton, who was said to be drunk and to have taken Ecstasy, kept "going on" at the two women before Mrs Simpson's friend Amanda Drane decided to go to bed.