Daily Mail
September 30, 2015
A grief-stricken teenage girl killed herself only two months after her mother was beaten to death by her crack-addicted boyfriend – who had just been released from prison for domestic violence.
Rachelle Owen, 16, committed suicide on railway tracks near Hoylake station in Wirral, Merseyside, in April because she ‘just wanted to be with’ her mother, Kay Diamond, 44, a court heard today.
Only weeks earlier, in February, Miss Diamond had been murdered by her 52-year-old loan shark boyfriend, Anthony Blye, after he got into an ‘explosive rage’ at her flat in Toxteth, south Liverpool.
Blye had been released from prison less than 24 hours earlier after serving a 28-day sentence for breaching a Domestic Violence Prevention Order following eight incidents in the past year.
Upon his release on February 27, he immediately breached the order again by heading to the area where she lived, where he accused Miss Diamond of seeing another man before murdering her.
Today, Blye was jailed for life for murder by Judge David Aubrey QC at Liverpool Crown Court.
He was ordered to serve a minimum of 19 years behind bars.
Judge Aubrey told the defendant: ‘You brutally killed a defenceless and vulnerable woman in her own home. The assault was prolonged and vicious. The offence was committed while you were in a jealous rage in consequence of your misguided perception that she had been unfaithful to you.’
After arriving at Miss Diamond’s home, Blye accused his girlfriend of seeing a man named Louis Brown while he was in prison.