Jealous ex who stabbed father-of-six to death in drug-fuelled rage when she found his Tinder profile on Christmas Day is jailed
Kirsty Carless, 33, plunged a knife into 31-year-old Louis Price's heart in the early hours of December 25, 2024, in an attack fuelled by cocaine and alcohol.
She had been drinking double vodka and cokes with a male friend at the pub before going back to his home to have sex multiple times.
At around 1.30am on Christmas Day, a friend sent her a screenshot of Mr Price's Tinder profile. In a furious rage Carless armed herself with a kitchen knife and ordered a taxi to his parents' house to confront him.
Harrowing CCTV footage shows Carless storming up towards the house and 'stalking' Mr Price around the garden while menacingly waving the knife towards his face.
Seconds later the taxi driver heard a 'very loud and prolonged' scream before Carless emerged for the house 'anxious and sweating' after leaving Mr Price to die on the conservatory floor.
Carless then went to her parents house where she admitted what she had done and called 999. Bodycam footage of her arrest shows the remorseless killer sitting on a sofa as a police officer places her in handcuffs.
Carless pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied murdering her ex, instead claiming he had taken money from her and planned to destroy the caravan he was living in.
She has now been jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years after she was convicted of murder and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
She was also found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm over a previous incident, but cleared of intentional strangulation.
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