AN OnlyFans model is being tried for the murder of her partner. He threatened to leave her hours before his death. “just words”.
A court heard that Abigail White (24), stabbed Bradley Lewis (22) in the heart with a knife.
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White, who used to refer to herself in the past as “fake Barbie”, admits manslaughter but denies murder.
This morning, she told a Bristol Crown Court jury that even though he had said he didn’t want to be in the relationship any longer just hours before his death he still believed her.
She stated, “He doesn’t think that. He never thought that. It was only words.
“That would just be something that we both frequently said to one another, but didn’t mean we actually wanted to do it.”
Bradley was killed by a single stabbing wound to the chest on March 26, in the early hours.
According to the court, the couple had been arguing about their unfaithfulness for years together. They were even previously ordered by social services to stay apart.
Jurors also heard a message that Bradley had sent to her friend before the stabbing. It was an audio message in which she suggested she was ready to threaten Bradley with violence. “the truth”.
She said the following in the recording “He only tells me the truth when he thinks I’m gunna kill him, like when I get a knife out, like when I’m gunna stab him”.
White acknowledged that she made the statement. However, White added: “But that’s not what I meant”.
The prosecution heard that White and a friend were involved in a drunken argument at a pub.
She felt that Bradley didn’t stand up for her in the argument which saw her shoved on the ground.
White was also interrogated by the prosecution about a text she sent to a friend in which she suggested she wanted to kill Brad, Anna, and his friend.
She wrote: “I want to kill them so bad, but I can’t do prison time and leave my kids.”
White was also interviewed by the prosecution in relation to a call that Bradley made to a friend asking for help. White claimed that White was a prostitute. “trying to kill him”.
Bradley spoke to Sophie during the phone call: “Help me Sophie, she’s trying to kill me, she keeps beating me up, she’s trying to stab me, she’s hurting me.”
White, who is alleged to have been heard telling him to in the background. “shut the f**k up”She said that she didn’t recall Bradley’s apparent plea for assistance.
She explained: “I don’t remember that. I was just crying, feeling upset, feeling heartbroken.”
She also denied beating, trying to stab, or threatening to murder Bradley during the call.
White also demonstrated how she held her knife, which she stabbed Bradley with, to Anna Vigars KC as Prosecutor.
White demonstrated to the court how she held the large knife in her hand, the blade pointed downwards towards the ground, while holding it on the handle.
White initially denied that she was acting out of rage when she was asked. “anger”Bradley was attacked by her.
She continued: “I was angry and upset. I took out the knife because I felt I had to, but I wasn’t going to hurt him or cause him harm.”
“I didn’t know that that would happen, it just happened.”
She said that she was emotional. “really didn’t”Intention to hurt him when he was stabbed by her, and that the incident was “just over before I even thought”, adding: “I didn’t realise I had done that until after”.
She also expressed regret at lying to neighbours, police, and hospital staff about the stabbing.
Friday’s hearing heard from the court that White told his neighbors that Bradley had caused the injuries.
She denied that she had lied in order to protect her self, and she stated: “No, I was worried about what was going to happen to all of us. Not just me, but the children, and Brad.”
White also denied that he tried to cover up Bradley’s death by cleaning up blood from Bradley’s body as he lay dying in his kitchen.
She explained: “I cleaned up by Brad in the kitchen when he was laying on the floor because I didn’t want my son to see what had happened to his daddy.”
The trial continues.
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