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13.11.2022 - 22:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A man who walked free from court after threatening to set his ex-girlfriend on fire went on to murder her two weeks later.
Robert Massey screamed vile abuse at Jacqueline Forest after attempting to kick down her front door in mid-august, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Just 17 days later, he strangled Jacqueline to death before stabbing her and writing insults all over her body with a pen. The 43-year-old defendant had been in a relationship with the 49-year-old victim, who was known to loved ones as Jaki, since the summer of 2020 and had stayed at her home on Piele Road in Haydock, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Massey was previously handed an 18-month community order at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on August 15 this year after assaulting Jacqueline, and given a restraining order from attending her address for 28 days.
Prosecutor Andrew Ford KC said two days before his court appearance, Massey had gone to his victim's flat armed with an iron bar and started kicking down the door. He took her bank card before covering Jacqueline in vodka and threatened to set her alight as he fled the address.
Video footage recorded through the keyhole of a next door flat shows Massey repeatedly walking back from the door before taking running kicks at it for several minutes. In the clip shown to the court, Jacqueline can be heard screaming in the background before she finally gives in to his demands and opens the door.
Defence lawyer Daniel Travers said the "spilling of the vodka was reckless during a struggle" and that no "threat to ignite" had been made by Massey.
Despite the ban, the couple met with each other in a park over the August bank holiday weekend and spent time together over the next few days, mostly at Ms Forest's home. At
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