News desk... keeping you up-to-date with happenings
Main adultsx Page... more categoriesIf this is your first visit please click here before continuing
| Teenager killed mother's friend after affair A school leaver who had a one-night stand with a woman twice his age denied boasting that it "felt good" as he stabbed her to death, a court heard. The teenager, who says he felt "ashamed and disgusted" after the brief fling with his mother's close friend, said fear drove him to wrap a chain round her neck before repeatedly plunging a kitchen knife into her back. Leaving her lifeless body just inside her front door, blood spattered Dean Cullen, who was just 16 at the time, went straight round to a friend's house to clean up. But when the other youngster asked about his red smeared hands, he allegedly replied: "It is just dirt, that is all blood is, just dirt." The youngster then returned home as if nothing had happened, London's Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court has heard. Cullen, now 18, who is accused of "blackmailing" 33-year-old Maria Cartwright for months after their short-lived liaison, admits the woman's manslaughter but denies murdering her - a plea rejected by the Crown. Cullen, of Keemor Close, Plumstead, south east London, has told the court how he and Miss Cartwright had spent several days alone in a caravan in Clacton, Essex, in August 1999. His mother, Val, had planned to join them, but before she could arrive, her much older friend had committed a sex act with the youth. Unhappy at what had happened, he had further cause to be annoyed with her when she upset his mother by failing to turn up for a "girls' weekend". He explained that, on the night of her death, he had gone to her home in Congleton Grove, Plumstead, to warn her about her behaviour and also to make it clear that what had occurred between them must never be repeated. Having said his piece, he then went to leave. He said: "She put her arm on my shoulder. "I turned round ... and she said, 'I love you'. I said, `No', and she said it again." Insisting he had been "nervous" about seeing the woman in the first place, mention of her feelings simply served to "make me even more scared". He told the jury: "I didn't know what was going to happen and that is when I put the chain around her neck. "Then I went round the back of her and stabbed her." The trial continues. 1st February 2002 |
Copyright 2001 adultsx All Rights Reserved
ACIP worldwide copyright protection If you believe we have infringed on a copyright that you own
please contact us and the offending item will be removed immediately
Grateful appreciation to all contributors. Emma