A girlfriend killer has been convicted of murder after stabbing her boyfriend in the heart before his 25th birthday. Natalie Bennett, 47, tried to punch Kasey Anderson in the head as he pleaded for help in her neighbor's driveway on March 11 this year.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how Bennett told police he went to her home in Carr Lane East in Croxteth “like that”. Richard Pratt KC previously recalled that Bennett's neighbors "heard loud voices" coming from the property at around 5.30 p.m. About 45 minutes later, Mr. Anderson was "knocking and kicking on their door".
The occupants were described as "frightened by the disturbance" and called the police. He also called 999 while seriously injured on his doorstep to report that he had been stabbed. Mr Anderson "kept telling the operator he was dying", but added that he "didn't know who stabbed him or where they were".
The Liverpool Echo reported that many of his answers were deemed "inconsistent". The call handler could hear Bennett's voice in the background and ask to speak to her, at which point she "actually took the call." She told the operator that Mr.
Anderson had "stab wounds all over his body" which she considered "a bit deep". But the defendant affirmed that he did not know who stabbed him and said, "He rushed in like that." He was later found to have suffered minor injuries to his neck, right shoulder, lower back, and left forearm, as well as a "shallow" stab wound to the lower back of his right leg. But Mr.
Anderson also suffered a “deep wound” to his chest, damaging his left lung and heart. After being taken to Aintree Hospital, he underwent "hopefully life-saving surgery", but died 20 days later in the early hours of March 31, just over a week before his birthday.
25 on April 8. Mr Pratt said: “Medical evidence suggests this was not a simple stab wound but one of many injuries. “The wounds may have been superficial and the stab wound to the leg may have been of shallow depth, but together they demonstrate a coordinated attack that laid the foundation for the fatal wound to the chest.
In our view, Natalie Bennett lied to the operator because she knew what she was doing and had no excuse for it. » Mr. Pratt said Ring doorbell footage recovered from a neighbor's house showed Bennett “holding a knife to the head of a distraught and injured Mr.
Anderson” with his right hand and “at least using it to strike Kasey in the head.” Anderson. kept it near his head." He added: “So we suggest she continued to be hostile towards him even though she must have known she had stabbed him in the chest”.
When the police arrived, she again claimed that he had come to her house “like that” and claimed that she first saw him that evening when she heard a knock on the next-door neighbor's door. Crime scene investigators later discovered a clump of hair on the floor, which appeared to have been "cut off" from her head.
Meanwhile, "a number of sharp objects" were discovered in the kitchen sink, which "appeared to have been at least partially soaked in water" and no blood was found on them, while the address was said to "smell strong detergent". Bennett told the trial that she stabbed Mr. Anderson once in self-defense after he attacked her.
"He kicked me, and I flew into the kitchen and peed myself," she told the jury from the stand. The court heard she was left "on the floor next to the sink" before "grabbing the knife from the side". Bennett described how she "hit" with the gun "because she was scared of Kasey" and "what he was going to do."
She said she aimed a slash with the blade "just once", then Mr. Anderson "just screamed" and they "for some reason got out". His lawyer, Stanley Reiz KC, asked: “What are you going to do? » “I wouldn't hurt him like that anyway, not a chance,” Bennett replied. Don't do that. I love it. I still do it. I was scared. I won't hurt him, not a chance.
I still love him. Not a day goes by that I don't suffer when I think of him. Mr. Anderson's family members shouted "yes" and clapped when the verdict was announced. Two jurors also shed tears. Kasey's aunt, Denise Anderson, was heard saying "justice for my son" as she left the courtroom. Bennett will be sentenced on November 10.
Judge Denis Watson KC told him: “You have been convicted of murder and there can only be one sentence: life imprisonment.