Tag: ‘heartbroken’
The Moneyist: ‘I feel heartbroken’: My father refinanced my late mother’s house, even though she wanted it to be divided among all the family. What recourse do I have?
Heartbroken dad tells of moment he found daughter stabbed to death by possessive lover – as beast is jailed for life
A HEARTBROKEN dad who found his daughter stabbed to death by a possessive monster said he still sees her body in his dreams.
Clair Ablewhite, 47, was killed at her cottage in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, by John Jessop, 26, after breaking off their romance.
Clair Ablewhite, 47, was found dead inside her cottage home by her distraught dad Graham Tinkley[/caption]
John Jessop stabbed the mum-of-three in the neck and chest at her home[/caption]
Her heartbroken dad said he was still haunted by the bloodstained scene[/caption]
Distraught dad Graham Tinkley, 75, found the body of dogwalker Clair, in her new £450,000 home last February.
The mum-of-three had begun seeing Jessop following the breakdown of her marriage of 28 years.
He cycled 17 miles to her home – which she had only lived in a month – late at night and he launched a “persistent and brutal” attack on the night of February 25 last year.
She suffered knife wounds to the neck and chest, as well as a series of blunt force and defensive injuries.
Brave father Graham desperately battled to save his daughter’s life after he discovered her, while at the same time Jessop was said to have been out drinking with friends.
The shocking discovery triggered a police probe and a long-running saga which ended this week with Jessop being jailed for life at Nottinghamshire Crown Court.
And Graham admitted that he still gets nightmares and struggles to sleep after the harrowing ordeal.
Mr Tinkley, who found his daughter lying by the fireplace still in her pyjamas, told the court: “To this day I wake up in the night; panic attacks. I see Clair in my dreams.
“I see blood gushing from her throat trying to resuscitate her dead body.”
He was also dealt fresh heartbreak after his wife, Sandra, was diagnosed with cancer following the tragedy.
Graham said: “It was absolutely terrible. It is all still a nightmare. We are thinking about it all the time, we cannot even go for a walk.
“Our lives have been destroyed. My wife got cancer since that happened, because she smoked so many cigarettes to cope with it all.”
He added: “Clair moved to the new place because she wanted a new start in life after her divorce. She was very popular and loved, and there were over 400 people who attended her funeral.”
Jessop, who met his lover on the Facebook Dating website in September 2021, was arrested 11 days after the killing following a manhunt.
A court heard that three days earlier, he had told friends while having drinks: “I’m on borrowed time. This could be my last night out.”
Jessop pleaded guilty to murder at a previous hearing and was sentenced on Wednesday.
The cold-hearted killer was jailed for life with a minimum term of 17 years and eight months.
Jessop was identified as a suspect through CCTV provided by a neighbour of Ms Ablewhite, who ran a dog-walking business from her home in Hall Lane.
Officers said the victim had been using a dating website and had communicated with Jessop via social media and WhatsApp.
Forensic officers collecting evidence at the scene[/caption]
Dozens of heartbroken brides had weddings in Greece CANCELLED after TUI lost hotel contract
Noel Gallagher ‘rallying round’ heartbroken daughter Anais as she ‘splits from boyfriend’
Kirstie Alley dead at 71: Cheers star’s heartbroken children announce the actress has passed away
Heartbroken parents of dying baby were left shocked by nurse’s comment, Lucy Letby trial hears
A NURSE interrupted a heartbroken mum and dad as they tried to comfort their dying baby boy, telling them “you’ve said your goodbyes”, the Lucy Letby trial heard.
In a statement the dad of Baby C, whose brain had been starved of oxygen, said: “This comment shocked us.”
The father recalled how they held their baby boy as his life ebbed away, saying: “There was nothing more that could be done for him.
“We just wanted to cuddle him and make him pain-free.
“We didn’t want to leave him while he was still alive”.
A nurse he thought may have been Letby, 32, came in with a ventilated basket.
She told the couple: “You’ve said your goodbyes.
“Do you want me to put him in here?”
The father said: “This comment shocked us.
“My wife said ‘He’s not dead yet’.
Most read in The Sun
He added that the nurse, who he thought may have been Letby, “backed off and tried to defuse the situation but I couldn’t believe she’d said that”.
The tot’s mum said the 2015 death four days after his birth at the Countess of Chester Hospital was “very unexpected”.
Letby, 32, of Hereford, denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill a further ten.
The Manchester crown court trial continues.