CROWTHER STABBED HER TO DEATH

JUST WEEKS BEFORE EVIL PAUL

vides music therapy for people with disabilities and learning difficulties and was hosting an event at a pub in Huddersfield on September 12.

Judge Bayliss said: “It was there that you, Paul Crowther, ambushed her, attacked her with a knife and then repeatedly stabbed her as she lay prone on the floor, ending her young life.”

He said Crowther had bought two knives, including a six-inch kitchen knife, eight days earlier and had made allegations about Miss Fields to police before driving to Huddersfield and attacking his former partner as she unloaded equipment.

The judge said the attack was captured on CCTV.

He said: “It shows a targeted and sustained attack. She was stabbed multiple times and after the attack the defendant ran back to his car and drove off.”

Miss Fields was pronounced dead despite attempts by her friends and passers-by to save her life.

Crowther tried to get away from police on the motorway before leaving his car on a bridge and climbing over railings while holding a knife to his throat.

He was later taken to hospital and then to the police station, where he held conversations with himself and referred to a voice in his head he called “Osiris”, which he claimed told him to carry out the attack.

He refused to answer questions and claimed he had amnesia about killing Miss Fields.

Judge Bayliss said he accepted that Crowther’s decision to kill Miss Fields was driven by his condition, but he rejected the suggestion that he was in a “state of altered awareness” at the time, describing his actions as “entirely logical and rational”.

He said: “I am quite sure that you knew perfectly well what you were doing.”

He added: “You are, Paul Crowther, I am sorry to say, a very dangerous man.”