UK: Colored Chap Jailed for Fatally Striking White GF in Neck with Mobile Phone

Levi Ogden and Lloyd Birkby

Well.

This is a rather unusual way to die.

YorkshireLive:

A young mum was left to die in the street by her boyfriend after he threw a mobile phone at her hitting her in the neck.

Levi Ogden, 26, collapsed to the floor after being struck by the device launched by aggressive Lloyd Birkby.

He then left her to die in the street following the incident in Halifax town centre, Leeds Crown Court heard today.

Birkby, 27, of Langdale Street, Elland, denied murder and admitted manslaughter.

He also pleaded guilty to common assault in relation to one of Ms Ogden’s friends that night and denied a further common assault allegation.

The pleas were accepted at a previous hearing and he was sentenced today.

Prosecution Dafydd Enoch QC told the court that CCTV captured the moment that Ms Ogden was struck in the neck by a mobile phone.

He said: “The defendant saw something on the floor, which was a dropped mobile phone.

“He was a few short ft away. He picked up the phone and threw it at the deceased which struck her in the neck.

“When confronted by her friend Courtney Bland he shoved her to the ground and walked away across the road.”

The court heard the Levi was ‘left dying in the street by the defendant’.

Mr Enoch said: “She was helped in the street by street angels, paramedics and then by the police.

“Mr Birkby was aggressive in his manner at the time and was clearly under the influence of drink.”

Ms Ogden, a mum to two children, was rushed to hospital but later died.

Medical evidence found that she was struck in the neck which caused a tearing in the neck which caused a haemorrhage and bleeding into the area of the brain, which in turn lead to cardiac arrest.

The court heard that there was a history of domestic violence between the couple.