‘Killing people isn’t always a bad thing’
Sickening boast of blood-soaked murderer moments after he had stabbed neighbour to death in noise row
A blood-soAked murderer said ‘killing people isn’t always a bad thing’ as he was arrested, chilling bodycam footage shows.
Jamie Crosbie, 48, stabbed 41-yearold dean Allsop 17 times after becoming annoyed at the noise of the victim’s son revving a motorbike in the street in April last year, a court heard.
Crosbie was found guilty of murdering the father of three in the town of Thorpe st Andrew in Norfolk following a threeweek trial.
He was also found guilty of wounding two women with intent, Mr Allsop’s partner louise Newell and neighbour kerryn Johnson, who had come out to help.
He was cleared of two counts of attempted murder. Crosbie had admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility but denied murder.
senior investigating officer detective Chief Inspector Phill Gray, from the joint Norfolk and suffolk major investigation team, said: ‘This was a cold-blooded attack by a man intent on causing extreme harm to others.
‘dean suffered 17 stab wounds to his body, some of which were inflicted when he was lying facedown and motionless.
‘Crosbie’s savage attack didn’t stop there; he stabbed two people who had come to help dean, one suffering an arterial bleed to her neck. Crosbie is an extremely violent man who has no place in society, and we welcome the jury’s verdict today.’
He said the incident had ‘striking similarities’ to a previous incident in 2018 where Crosbie threatened Mr Allsop with a knife after the father of three put some rubbish in his wheelie bin.
lawyers for Crosbie claimed he was suffering from ‘encapsulated delusional disorder’ at the time of last year’s attack. Mr Allsop was pronounced dead at the scene at 8.18pm on April 14.
His son Mikey had revved the engine of a motorbike Mr Allsop and Crosbie had been working on. Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, said that Crosbie told officers who later arrested him on suspicion of murder: ‘That makes me happy, that’s a good thing, that’s the best news I ever heard.’
In a statement, Miss Newell said: ‘I cannot put into words how this has affected our whole family. My children have lost their hero and I have lost my chosen person – the person I chose to spend my life with. My best friend, soul mate, my first love.’
she added: ‘our lives will never be the same without dean, but we will continue to keep his memory alive.’
officers arrived seven minutes after the 999 call was made and found a scene of ‘carnage’ with four people covered in blood and seriously injured, and screams were heard, Norwich Crown Court was told.
A post-mortem examination established Mr Allsop had died from a stab wound to the chest. Crosbie was arrested at the scene, initially on suspicion of assault and then later for murder. After being cautioned he told officers: ‘That’s a good thing, I’m very happy about that, killing people isn’t always a bad thing’.
The court also heard Crosbie and Mr Allsop had been involved in a previous dispute about a bin.
This caused a verbal argument between the pair and led to Crosbie throwing a hammer at Mr Allsop’s house.
during this incident, Crosbie also armed himself with a knife and a saw. The incident was investigated at the time and Crosbie was convicted of weapons and criminal damage offences and given a suspended prison sentence.
Crosbie will be sentenced for last year’s attack at a later date.
‘Extremely violent man’