‘He thinks I’m having an affair with Jimmy Choo’
Victim’s diary reveals life with her killer boyfriend
ADIARY entry by a university student stabbed to death by her jealous boyfriend reveals he had formed the paranoid belief she was having an affair with fashion guru Jimmy Choo.
Natasha Wild, 23, posted entries on her laptop saying that schizophrenic Lloyd Brackenbury had accused her of cheating on him with the Malaysian designer and revealing he had thrown her across a room during violent rows.
Her diary entitled: ‘What it is like to live with Lloyd’ also revealed how Brackenbury had made sick taunts about her late sister who died in a house fire and also how he would keep her awake at night calling her a “liar.’’
One entry by Natasha said: “He sexually examines me to see if I have slept with someone and if we have had a nice day he will purposely ruin it by finding something to start an argument over.
“He said he would never hurt me but has picked me up four times and thrown me across the room.’’
The diary entries were discovered after Natasha suffered a fatal knife wound to the neck when Brackenbury attacked her in November last year in the lounge of the home they shared in Syke, Rochdale.
It emerged Natasha had discovered she was pregnant with 32-year-old Brackenbury’s child during their relationship but she had had a secret termination telling her mother: “Lloyd would kill me if he found out.’’
At Manchester Crown Court, Brackenbury, a paranoid schizophrenic was ordered to be detained in a psychiatric hospital after he was found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He was cleared of murder.
The court hard Natasha, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was in her third year of a college degree at Liverpool Hope University, and had been working as a dinner lady at Matthew Moss High School in Rochdale to help fund her studies.
In June 2005 her brother, Alan Wild, aged nine, step sister Layla, 23, and Layla’s 11-month-old daughter, Courtney Nabb, died alongside family friend Cole Ridgway, two, in a house fire Albion Street, Rochdale, caused by an electrical fault involving the tumble dryer.
She and Brackenbury – a former forensic science student at Manchester University – met in 2009 and began dating in 2015 and later they moved in together. But in the months before her death, she had been battling to make him take his medication and she began confiding in her mother Susan about Brackenbury’s increasingly erratic behaviour.
Susan Wild told the hearing: “Their relationship was terrible – one day he would be fine and he would seem sweet and I thought he was nice but I began to notice some strange behaviour so I told Natasha to keep him at arms length and be friends instead.”
In her diary, Natasha said: “Lloyd believes I am cheating on him with a man called Jimmy Choo who is a fashion designer.
“He thinks he has a child called Amy who is seven and he thinks my twitches are fake even though he knows I have Cerebral Palsy.
Brackenbury’s mother Linda said: “Lloyd was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at 20 years of age, prior to this he had no signs of mental health although he was bullied at school so badly that they had to move him.”
She said her son was admitted to Birch Hill hospital in Rochdale for psychiatric treatment but said she unsure whether he was taking his medication. Police said Brackenbury himself dialled 999 after he stabbed Natasha on Monday, November 28, last year.
Brackenbury was initially detained under the Mental Health Act but was charged the following March. He denied murder.