The 33-year-old mother-of-four was bent double as the unanimous verdict was read out
A woman who plunged a kitchen knife into the chest and abdomen of her abusive partner as he laying sleeping wept in court today as a jury convicted her of his murder.
The jury of five men and seven women deliberated for around eight and a half hours over the course of two days before returning to unanimously convict McIlwaine of the murder of James Joseph Crossley on March 2, 2022. As he woke up and called out “help me Julie Ann” she grabbed their child and fled, locking herself in the downstairs bathroom where she rang 999 and then, under instruction from the call-hander, ran to a neighbour’s house to summon help.
She was recorded telling police and her neighbour the situation had gotten to the point where “I’m thinking it’s either him or me…if I don’t get rid of him I have no way of escaping from him…it’s either him for me”. The trial also heard a number of allegations regarding Crossley’s behaviour including McIlwaine telling police he had “threatened my kids, threatened to shoot them and threatened to burn the house down”.
Dr Christine Kennedy testified it would be “naive” to think that McIlwaine could simply have walked away and left the relationship while Dr Jeremy Kenney-Herbert said in his report that McIlwaine had exhibited behaviour consistent with “depersonalisation”.
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