Logan Burnett was jailed for life on Monday for the fatal stabbing of Courtney Mitchell, 26 – an attack which he had meticulously planned and happened while she was enjoying a night out with pals in Ipswich
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CCTV captures Courtney Mitchell’s final moments before murder by ex
This is the terrifying moment a mum was seen fleeing from the former partner who would later knife her to death in the street.
Courtney Mitchell, 26, and her two friends are seen running away from a knife-wielding Logan Burnett, 27, who is seen storming toward them in Ipswich, Suffolk. A chilling CCTV clip shows Courtney desperately trying to get away just moments before he caught up with her, shoved her to the wall, and stabbed her repeatedly with a long knife.
The force of the stabbing was so powerful that he ended up bending the blade with one of the blows. The mum-of-three was bleeding out when she was heard crying and asking: “Am I going to die?” Despite the best efforts of paramedics, she couldn’t saved and died a short while after being taken to hospital.
Courtney’s mum told how she identified her daughter’s punctured body on her 27th birthday, and even took a birthday cake to the mortuary to mark the tragic date. Samantha Mitchell blamed the police for not taking the violent threats made by Burnett seriously. The killer was handed a life sentence with a minimum 24-year term at Ipswich Crown Court on Monday.
The court heard Burnett, who had issues with alcohol, drugs and had 52 previous convictions, had been violent to Ms Mitchell. They had separated a month before her murder. During sentencing hearing, Mrs Mitchell hit out at police and said they let her daughter down ‘time after time’. She said: “If they had done their jobs properly she would still be here. They didn’t even try.”
Logan Burnett fatally stabbed 26-year-old mum-of-three Courtney in Ipswich, in a planned attack while she was on a night out with friends on August 6 last year. Mrs Mitchell described her world as “shattering into a million pieces” the day Courtney was murdered.
She said she had to identify Miss Mitchell’s body on what would have been her daughter’s 27th birthday. Mrs Mitchell said felt guilty she wasn’t with her daughter when she died and described Burnett as a ‘monster’. Courtney had told friends of reported physical and verbal abuse she had suffered at the hands of Burnett – including alleged threats to kill.
Judge Martyn Levett said Burnett had cruelly hunted down Miss Mitchell as if she was his quarry and had carried out a “personal execution”. He said that Burnett had fantasised about killing someone’ and had been part of an online group of people who watched real-life deaths. Riel Karmy-Jones KC, prosecuting, said the attack had been motivated by “obsessive jealousy” after Burnett found out that Miss Mitchell had a new boyfriend.
Miss Karmy-Jones told the court that Miss Mitchell had been with friends walking towards the skate park in Ipswich when one of her friends saw Burnett coming towards them. They started running away but Burnett, who was wearing a hooded top, caught up with Miss Mitchell and stabbed her four times.
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