Woman confronts jealous ex in court as he’s jailed for murdering her new lover
A grieving young woman confronted her obsessed ex-boyfriend in court after he stabbed her now lover to death.
Alicia Parrin told Kaydon Prior, 23, ‘I will always regret the day I met you’ as he was jailed for 28 years after he stabbed Harrison Tomkins to death in August.
He flew into a jealous rage after he found Ms Parrin, 21, with Mr Tomkins, 25 at her flat in Crawley.
The new couple had spent their first night together and were asleep when Prior and Curtis burst into the flat.
He ripped the duvet off before pinning Mr Tomkins to the bed.
As he knifed the victim with a 16cm long hunting blade, he screamed ‘I love you’ to his ex.
But as he left the flat, Prior grabbed Ms Parrin by the hair and punched her saying: ‘I should stab you too.’
After being confronted by neighbour, Prior tried to dismiss her screams as the sound of ‘good sex’.
Both Prior and his accomplice Jason Curtis, 22, were given life sentences.
Ms Parrin counted the blows as she delivered her powerful victim statement.
She told Chichester Crown Court: ‘One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. That’s how many times he put the knife in Harrison.
‘I was 19 when I first met him and I will always regret the day.
‘I don’t think I’ll ever truly be able to recover from the trauma of what he did to me and what he did to Harrison.
‘I don’t think I’ll ever be able to un-see what I saw that night. The amount of blood that was on the bed.’
She described Mr Tomkins, a lifeguard, as the complete opposite of jealous and controlling Prior.
Ms Parrin said: ‘I will ever be able to leave behind the fear he instilled in me. He didn’t allow me to think for myself.
‘I’ve lost my confidence in my own ability to make decisions.’
She added she has lost her innocence and teenage years, with even the sound of keys unlocking doors bringing back awful memories of the attack.
She continued: ‘I’m trapped in the nightmare of that night again.
‘Before all of this, I used sleep to stop him hurting me. I can’t do that any more.
‘Whenever I close my eyes I see him coming into my room and doing those horrible things again.’
Judge Jeremy Gold KC said Prior and Curtis had a executed the carefully planned killing of a man neither of them knew or had any reason to harm.
He told Prior: ‘This brutal murder was borne out of your obsession with Alicia Parrin.
‘She was exhausted by your coercive and controlling behaviour and made it clear to you she would no longer put up with it.
‘You would not and could not accept that simple fact.’
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