The Hitman’ Killer Smirks in Court as He Warns Victim’s Family: “I Know Where Yous Live” After Stabbing Girlfriend 18 Times
A remorseless killer who stabbed his girlfriend to death in a frenzied knife attack smiled and sneered in court as he warned her devastated family, “I know where yous all live, you daft c*s.”
Michael Ormandy, 34, donned a bulletproof vest before butchering Rebekah Campbell, 32, in her own flat at Knowsley Heights in Huyton, Liverpool, in April this year.
The self-styled “Hitman” – whose chilling nickname is tattooed across the front of his neck – plunged a knife into Rebekah 18 times during a violent and sustained assault that left her bleeding to death on her kitchen floor.
The killing brought a horrific end to what friends described as a “toxic” relationship plagued by violence, jealousy and control.
“My fella stabbed me”
Moments before the fatal attack, Rebekah was on the phone to her friend Faye Henderson, who told the court she suddenly heard her scream, “Go away, get out, Mick!”
Seconds later came a loud bang, the sound of puppies barking – and then silence.
CCTV then captured Ormandy leaving the building as a terrified Rebekah stumbled out of her flat clutching her stomach and crying out, “I’ve been stabbed!”
Neighbours rushed to help as she collapsed on the landing, gasping, “My fella stabbed me.”
Paramedics raced her to Aintree Hospital, where she asked emergency workers, “Am I gonna die?” But despite desperate efforts to save her, she was pronounced dead in the early hours of April 16.
A violent relationship
The killing came after a series of violent outbursts in the couple’s turbulent relationship.
Days earlier, on April 12, they had been seen arguing at Revolver bar on Mathew Street during a night out. Witnesses said Rebekah threw a shoe and slapped Ormandy. Later that same night, the pair were seen arguing again outside the Beer Engine on Hardman Street, where Rebekah kicked out at him – and Ormandy responded by punching her in the face so hard she fell to the ground and burst into tears.
She was left with a black eye, but told friends she planned to end the relationship once and for all.
Sex with another woman hours before the murder
On the afternoon before the attack, Ormandy booked a room at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Southport, where he had sex with another woman.
That woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police that Ormandy said he was “going to Liverpool to sort something out” before he left that evening.
Within hours, Rebekah was dead.
Killer’s deranged rant to police
After the stabbing, Ormandy went on the run but later phoned police in a chilling call filled with violent threats and delusion.
He raged:
“The police are at my flat now. If they touch my dogs, I’m going to start killing police officers one by one.
I’ve got a suicide vest and I’ll blow everyone up. I’ve got nothing to lose now.
Yous couldn’t do your fing job, now look what happens.
I’m the bad guy because of the world we live in. It’s a fing joke.”
He then added:
“I’m gonna blow myself up. I’ll kill yous all. My dogs are my babies. I will kill for them.”
Ormandy was later arrested by armed officers on a canal towpath, still ranting that “this wouldn’t have happened if you’d done your job last week.”
‘She must’ve stabbed herself’
Even after his arrest, the killer refused to take responsibility. When told that Rebekah had been stabbed up to 20 times, he sneered:
“Twenty times? There’s no way. She must’ve stabbed herself. She started attacking me. She had the knife ready.”
But a Home Office post-mortem found that Rebekah had suffered 27 knife wounds — 18 stabs and 9 slashes — during what the pathologist called a “sustained, violent assault.”
Deep cuts to her arm showed she had tried to fight back, desperately raising her hands to defend herself.
‘I was fighting for my life’
In court, Ormandy tried to claim self-defence, insisting Rebekah was the aggressor.
He told jurors:
“She lunged at me with the knife. I grabbed it, we both fell over the puppies. I didn’t realise I had the knife — I thought I was punching her. I didn’t mean to hurt her. I just wanted to know if we were still together.”
He added that he “replays it every night” and claimed:
“Maybe if I’d let her stab me, we wouldn’t be in this situation.”
But prosecutors said Ormandy’s story was a pack of lies, pointing to the bulletproof vest he had deliberately put on before going to her flat and the sheer savagery of the attack.
‘A cold and callous killer’
The jury at Liverpool Crown Court saw through his web of deceit, finding him guilty of murder after deliberating for just a few hours.
As the verdict was read out, Ormandy smirked and turned to Rebekah’s devastated family, hissing:
“I know where yous all live, you daft c***s.”
The outburst left relatives in tears, with one describing him as “pure evil.”
Judge and jurors heard how Ormandy was obsessed with control, jealousy, and his own self-image as a “hard man.” His tattoo – The Hitman – now stands as a haunting reminder of his violent fantasy world that turned fatally real.
‘Rebekah deserved so much better’
Loved ones of Rebekah Campbell described her as “a beautiful, funny, big-hearted girl” who adored animals and had been planning to rebuild her life away from Ormandy.
“She was finally ready to walk away,” one friend said. “He couldn’t stand losing control of her.”
Ormandy will now spend life behind bars, branded a dangerous, deluded killer who robbed a young woman of her future in a senseless act of cruelty.