Mother, 27, tells murder trial she hit her lover in the neck with a dagger by 'mistake' then stabbed

[Celerity]

him in the heart to stop him making a noise

Shaye Groves, 27, allegedly murdered her boyfriend by stabbing him 22 times
A court heard that Groves kept pictures of notorious serial killers on her wall

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11706951/Mother-tells-murder-trial-hit-lover-neck-dagger-mistake.html



A mother-of-one accused of murdering her boyfriend told a court she mistakenly 'hit him in the neck' with the dagger, having meant to grab a money box beside her bed.

True crime fan Shaye Groves is said to have used the dagger she kept next to her bed in a 'passionate' attack on 25-year-old Frankie Fitzgerald last year at her home in Havant.

A tearful Groves, 27, today told jurors he had grabbed her by the throat during a heated row and that she 'couldn't breathe or scream'.

Winchester Crown Court heard that after hitting him in the neck with the dagger he fell back and 'slid slowly to the floor', clutching at his throat. In an attempt to silence his gurgling, she claimed she then stabbed him through the heart after he stopped moving.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Officer, I was just standing there cleaning my fingernails and he backed into my knife...

14 times.

[Irish_Dem]

2. People shouldn't back into a person getting a manicure.

They should know better.

[LuckyCharms]

3. Common mistake

[Coventina]

4. Pro tip: Don't date people with serial killers on their walls.

Just don't.

I don't know what went down between the two of them. I'd guess they were both violent people. Glad I'm not on that jury.

Just, ick.

[TheRealNorth]

7. +1

Not saying he deserved to get murdered, but let's not ignore the warning signs.

[hatrack]

5. She seems nice . . .

[mercuryblues]

8. That's just as believable as

Murdaugh's alibi. He said he was nowhere near his wife that night. He was taking a nap in the house.

As it turns out he made a video, just minutes before her death. His wife's voice is in the background, in the area where she was found.

When the police arrived, he was wearing different clothes than what he was wearing in the video.

[H2O Man]

9. She should get

additional time for that "defense."

[Jirel]

11. Why are women referred to as "mothers?"

Plus that reference in the article to “mother-of-one.” Way to go with the misogyny, reporters - gotta reduce a woman’s identity to her reproductive status. Not “woman,” or “serial killer fangirl,” or “tattoo and corset afficiando,” but “mother.”