The Sheffield man who murdered his girlfriend with two kitchen knives in a rage of "resentment and jealousy”
“I just started stabbing her in her neck and body. I just kept stabbing more and lost it”
In September 2010 Colin Campbell murdered his girlfriend Weronika Gospodarczyk in her Sheffield flat when she ended their relationship.
During the attack - “founded in resentment and jealousy” - Campbell, 29, used two kitchen knives to stab her in the neck, face and chest - causing 44 wounds.
Sheffield Crown Court heard “possessive” Campbell drew a second blade when the first struck the 23-year-old Polish student’s hand.
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A neighbour who arrived at the Seabrook Road flat to see Campbell attacking Miss Gospodarczyk said he seemed to have "he'd lost all control".
When police arrived Campbell told them: "She said she was going to leave me."
The Sheffield man’s barrister Adrian Waterman, QC said Campbell had been “consumed with jealously” in a relationship with someone so "intelligent, beautiful, vivacious and fun-loving".
The court was told the couple first met when Miss Gospodarczyk visited Sheffield on a school exchange trip in 2005. She returned to study tourism management at Sheffield Hallam University and met Campbell again in a nightclub.
Fiona Swain, prosecuting, said Campbell had been jealous throughout their "tumultuous" relationship" and would self-harm for her sympathy.
Campbell told police after the killing: “I just started stabbing her in her neck and body. I just kept stabbing more and lost it.”
Mr Waterman QC said his client was still “mystified” at what happened.
Judge Mrs Justice Rafferty told him: “This was an attack founded in resentment and jealousy on a young woman you sought to possess.”
Weronika’s family said they had been left with “turmoil, sadness, anger, distress and helplessness”, feelings “which will never end.”
Campbell was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years.