Murderer who stabbed partner jailed for life
A murderer who stabbed his lover after reading messages to other men on dating app Grindr has been jailed for life.
He had been given a 12-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, plus a 15-year ban on keeping animals. Mr Brockbanks was slashed across the back before being stabbed in the side while he was lying in bed.Justice Spencer told Ray: "I find, when he was attacked, Jason was asleep under his duvet, defenceless and in no position to defend himself against your attack."He was bleeding profusely from the wounds, blood soaked through his duvet and sheet. He fell to the floor beside his bed, the duvet fell on to the floor and covered his phone.
Prosecutor David Lamb KC had told jurors it was "the realisation that Jason was sexually interested in other males that was the trigger and motivating factor for the stabbing and ultimately this murder".His victim's body was found by a student accommodation manger at the property in Howard Street, after an email from his concerned parents.
"We believe Jason spent his last moments looking for his mobile phone to call for help but he was unable to find the phone due to the defendant having been the last person to use it. "Jason was enjoying his life as a student in Newcastle and that was cruelly cut short by the actions of Aaron Ray, who was cold and calculating in fatally wounding Jason and then leaving the scene of the crime," he said .
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