The Briton who killed his Irish ex-girlfriend, Avril Louise Flanagan, by stabbing her 53 times has been sent to prison for 19 years. The Court for Violence against Women in Orihuela handed down their sentence against Alan Matthew Daulby. He was found guilty of, last 29 May 2009, stabbing his ex-girlfriend 53 times across her body. It happened on May 29 2009 in the Aparthotel Playa Marina on Orihuela Costa. The couple had been living together, and sentence says that the ex-girlfriend when to his house at about 12 o’clock to collect some of her belongings, and to ask him to stop phoning her insistently. In this moment Alan Matthew grabbed her by the neck, and showing no mercy stabbed her 53 times until her body stopped moving. The victim’s family then arrived, and the aggressor escaped down the back stairs after wrapping her body in plastic sheeting and hiding it under the sofa. The attacker said his ex-girlfriend thought he was a thief, and her lawyer asserted after she broke up with him, he started to abuse drugs and drink. Later the killer burnt all the clothes he had been wearing and the rags that he had used to clean the blood, on waste ground, taking them there in a suitcase. Its thought he failed to notice there was blood on the suitcase. He then continued driving to escape, but was intercepted by the Security Forces three hours later in Oliva, a distance of 200km away. The judge said that the stabbings carried out led to death, and his violent action ‘was conscious and voluntary’. Only one member of the jury led the judge to take off a year from the 20 year maximum for such a crime. Daulby didn’t make any statement for three years, but he finally admitted that his crime had destroyed both families.
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