Brutal killer who strangled his girlfriend just before plotting to murder two adult men jailed for 28 a long time

A murderer who strangled his girlfriend to death and plotted to eliminate two other folks in a booze and rage-fuelled rampage has been jailed for 28 decades. 

Robert Massey, 43, attacked Jacqueline Forest, 49, at her dwelling in Haydock, Merseyside,  after finding messages on her telephone which ‘suggested she experienced been unfaithful with two other men’. 

He then stabbed her in the womb with a kitchen knife, ‘preoccupied’ with the thought that she was pregnant soon after acquiring a being pregnant take a look at at the residence on Piele Road. It was afterwards verified she experienced not been expecting a child. 

Liverpool Crown Court docket listened to that Massey experienced prepared to eliminate the gentlemen Ms Forest experienced been messaging, Anthony Murphy and Graham Roberts, by luring a person to an apartment and knifing him with the murder weapon, and attacking the other with a pair of scissors at his personal place of work. 

Massey admitted murder, two counts of tried murder and possession of a bladed short article in a public location and was jailed for lifestyle with a minimal term of 28 a long time. 

Robert Massey admitted murder, two counts of attempted murder and possession of a bladed write-up in a community put and was jailed for daily life with a minimal phrase of 28 decades

The court docket heard that Ms Forest and Massey had been in a marriage because the summertime of 2020 and had lived alongside one another at Ms Forest’s residence. 

On August 15 of this 12 months, Massey was handed an 18-month neighborhood get following he assaulted Ms Forest, identified to loved kinds as Jaki, and was subsequently banned from attending her address for 28 times. 

Andrew Ford, KC, prosecuting, told the court docket the purchase was the outcome of an incident two times prior, for the duration of which Massey went to the assets with an iron bar and attempted to kick the entrance doorway down. He then stole her bank card in advance of pouring vodka on Ms Forest, and threatened to gentle the spirit on fireplace.   

But in spite of the courtroom order, the couple fulfilled in a park more than the August lender getaway weekend and put in the upcoming several times jointly at her home. 

At all over 7pm on August 30, Massey was in bed though Ms Forest took a shower, and began hunting as a result of her mobile phone. He located messages which he felt prompt she had been unfaithful with Mr Murphy and Mr Roberts, the latter of whom Massey regarded as to be his ‘best friend’. 

Massey explained to police that he ‘saw red’ and attacked Ms Forest when she bought out of the shower, grabbing her neck and ‘straddling her’ on the mattress. 

He then consistently struck her head, put his palms about her neck and squeezed and she he ‘didn’t stop’ until she ‘went floppy’. He then headbutted her and stated: ‘Was it worth it? Was it value s***ging them two individuals?’ 

Jacqueline Forest, 49, was attacked at her home in Haydock, Merseyside, after Massey located messages on her telephone which ‘suggested she experienced been unfaithful with two other men’

Mr Ford instructed the courtroom that Massey then coated her with a towel, positioned a look at on her wrist and Moschino shoes on her feet, set a handbag more than her arm and sunglasses more than her experience and positioned a jewellery box on major of her. 

Massey afterwards informed officers that he had ‘ruined her wonderful deal with and decided to put some nice points on her simply because she constantly utilized to look pretty’.

But right after discovering a pregnancy test in the home, he stabbed her in the womb, just before creating ‘my finest mate’ future to the wound with a green pen. He also wrote ‘slag’ on a person thigh, and ‘baby’ on the other. 

The pair had been consuming vodka mixed with Fanta beforehand, and he ongoing to drink at the assets after the murder. He also bought £400 truly worth of cocaine, which he then took, getting designed a £500 withdrawal from the cash device at Asda in Haydock shortly just after the murder employing her debit card. 

Yet another £500 withdrawal was built in the early hours, and the card was then utilised at Mollie’s Bar in St Helens city centre. Massey then began to ‘plan his revenge’ on Mr Murphy and Mr Roberts, walking into St Helens to the Duke pub. 

He took a taxi into Liverpool and continued consuming. Employing Mr Forest’s phone, he updated her Fb profile at all over midnight and began sending messages from his possess cellphone to Mr Murphy at 4:30am. In just one, despatched at 6:15am, he wrote: ‘I’ll arrive for these you enjoy.’ 

Massey was observed acquiring out of a taxi in Haydock at 6:45am when he named Mr Murphy in a discussion that lasted nine minutes. 

From 8am onwards, he began messaging his next target from Ms Forest’s telephone to give ‘the impact she was sending these messages.’ In just one he wrote: ‘Don’t fret, he is not going to risk having nicked once again.’ Massey later on discarded Mr Forest’s cell phone in a close by field.

At all around the identical time, he started sending messages to Mr Murphy’s brother’s partner, alleging he had been ‘f***ing my fiancée and now she’s pregnant’. In a different information, he wrote: ‘She thought I was out for the night, but I came dwelling early.

‘He jumped out of the window, which I’m really amazed with mainly because we are 3 floors up. Just so you know, Anthony is effectively dead now – no a single f***s my fiancée.’

The courtroom listened to that Mr Murphy and Ms Forest had satisfied when they labored alongside one another at a Sainsbury’s keep in the location. On one particular event, the pair had ‘engaged in sexual activity’ for the duration of which her boyfriend had returned, main to Mr Murphy climbing out by using the balcony. 

Massey was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Courtroom (pictured) 

Mr Murphy arrived at the scene at close to 8:30am on Wednesday, August 31 having been lured there by Massey, who turned on the shower on the pretence that Ms Forest was in there. 

Mr Murphy pleaded with Massey, saying ‘please really don’t kill me’, before staying taken into the bedroom and demonstrated Ms Forest’s human body. 

Massey claimed: ‘Look what you’ve got f***ing caused’, right before he started attacking him with the exact same blade. He later explained to police that he was striving to minimize Mr Murphy’s ears off and experienced supposed to ‘throw him out of the window’. 

Mr Murphy was stabbed 3 time in the back and twice in the neck, but was in a position to flee to a neighbouring flat for aid. He was then rushed to Aintree Hospital exactly where he underwent operation. He was discharged just after a 7 days. 

Merseyside Law enforcement identified Ms Forest’s overall body soon immediately after 9am. Massey was noticed strolling by the streets, topless and covered in blood. At 9:15am, he acquired vodka at an off-licence on  Clipsley Lane. 

At all over 9:30am, he boarded the bus to St Helens town centre, then took a taxi to Prescot in which he drank in pubs right before having a different bus to Wavertee. It was there he stopped in a corner store to order a knife, but rather purchased scissors when the retail store experienced no knives for sale. 

He then took a taxi to Mr Roberts’ workplace at the finish of the East Lancs Highway in Norris Green. 

Mr Roberts and Massey experienced regarded each other for about 20 a long time, but Mr Roberts had engaged in a ‘one night stand’ with Ms Forest when she and Massey had break up up. Massey confronted Mr Roberts in a cellular phone connect with a 7 days earlier but experienced not manufactured any threats. 

Massey walked into the places of work at 6:30pm, 50 % an hour into Mr Roberts’s evening shift, and chased him out of the developing brandishing the scissors. 

Massey was listened to stating: ‘I’m gonna kill you if you believe you can get absent with this’ and struck him with the scissors. A witness listened to Massey say: ‘I never treatment, I’m accomplishing 20 yrs in any case. I have killed two people today already’. 

Mr Roberts managed to disarm Massey and jumped into a passing auto, instructing the driver to choose him to a nearby pub. He sustained stab wounds to his appropriate arm, upper body, and powering his appropriate ear. 

Mr Murphy was stabbed a few time in the back again and 2 times in the neck, but was in a position to flee to a neighbouring flat for assist. He was then rushed to Aintree Hospital (pictured) exactly where he underwent surgical procedures

Massey was arrested although strolling down Extensive Lane on suspicion of murder and attempted murder to which he replied: ‘I hope it was two murders.

‘What would you do if your most effective mate was shagging your Mrs? I would have thrown the f***ing c*** out of the window. My most effective mate s***ged my wife, so I f***ing did them. I am finding completed for two, may as nicely be 3.’

Although remaining interviewed by police, Massey said:   ‘It’s good to get it off my upper body. I you should not want the household to have to go by means of a demo. They need to be devastated. I beloved them to bits.’

He informed officers that he had stabbed Mr Roberts in the again ‘like he done to me’ and accused him of ‘sharking her’ in Fb messages. He also admitted that he had been striving to ‘come off’ cocaine and the he had been unfaithful to Ms Forest.

Daniel Travers, defending, told the courtroom his customer was ‘preoccupied’ by Ms Forest being expecting but that he ‘did not actually consider she was pregnant.’  

‘He was candid, both of those on arrest and also in job interview,’ he told the court. ‘Mr Massey is truly remorseful – he did not want to induce any even more upset to the family of the deceased.

‘It is extraordinary for somebody to have made full admissions and pleaded guilty at the very first opportunity for 3 offences exactly where there is an intent to destroy. Mr Massey did every thing he could soon after his arrest to begin earning pretty small techniques to producing amends for his actions.’ 

Sentencing, Judge Brian Cummings KC mentioned: ‘I express my remorse and condolences for all of the victims in this scenario and all of people connected to them. 

Merseyside Police’s Detective Chief Inspector Allison Woods described the attack as ‘truly shocking’ and ‘brutal’

‘This was certainly a brutal murder. It was clear that the target, I regret to say, must have endured major psychological and bodily suffering ahead of she died.

‘I take that there was no premeditation, but I do not take into consideration that to be a especially substantial element offered that the set off for your murderous attack appears to have been information you attained when scrolling via the victim’s mobile cellular phone. That conduct is an indicator of controlling behaviour on your aspect.

‘I acknowledge there is an factor of remorse, but your explanations and admissions – whole and candid nevertheless they had been – look to me to have been accompanied at all moments by an air of justification, as if you were being in a position that there was nothing else you could have performed. What you did, you did by selection.’

He went on to describe Massey’s steps in stabbing and producing on Ms Forest’s overall body as ‘quite appalling’. He reported of the second attack: ‘This offence involved distinct organizing and premeditation, produced employing subterfuge to entice the victim to the scene where you had been ready with a knife at the completely ready.’

He added that the assault on Mr Roberts was also ‘planned and premeditated’, involving ‘purchasing a pair of scissors for the intent of killing him’.

Pursuing the sentencing, Merseyside Police’s Detective Main Inspector Allison Woods said: ‘This was a definitely surprising and brutal assault which led to the tragic dying of Jacqueline Forest in her personal property. No one can start off to realize the influence the situation and the reality of her sudden death has experienced on her spouse and children and pals.

‘Nothing can provide Jacqueline again, but I hope that the prison sentence Massey must now serve will give them a sense of justice and allow them to eventually shift on with their lives.’