A vile killer jailed for the brutal murder and butchering of a teenage mum who 'looked at him as a father figure' has died behind bars.
28.03.2022 - 14:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A former '90s pop star who was stabbed "49 times" by a convicted wife killer and neighbour said she now lives with a daily reminder of the brutal attack.
Dundee -born Sandra Mckenzie, 63, who was singer with 90s 'Whole Lotta Love' hitmakers Goldbug, says she thought she was going to die when Stephen Allum left her with multiple stab wounds in the attack.
Allum was jailed for life last year after he admitted attempted murder, a sentence which came 23 years after he was given a hospital order for killing his wife.
Reflecting on the attack, which took place in Oxford in January last year, Sandra said: "It was absolutely terrifying. He was strangling me and I just felt all the life going out my body.
"I was absolutely terrified. I thought I was going to die."
Allum lived next door to her in the Littlemore property, where Sandra still lives and is desperate to move from.
The pop star says that she "got friendly" with her neighbour initially.
She said: "He invited me around for dinner but I kept putting it off. We used to meet in the garden when we went for a cigarette."
But then on January 24, 2021, he invited her to his flat.
Sandra added: "The minute I went round he grabbed my throat and pulled me out to the back garden and took me out, got me on the ground. He was strangling me, punching my face. He kept stabbing me in the chest."
She said she suffered 49 separate stab wounds in the brutal assault.
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