Court hears that Stephen Rayner had threatened to kill Elizabeth Hart-Browne on several occasions and left her with multiple injuriesA jeweller wept in court as she was cleared of murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him in the neck at their west London home. As he lay outside, Hart-Browne went back inside the flat to clean up some of the blood and wash the knife. Rayner, a call centre worker, had regularly inflicted domestic violence on Hart-Browne during their six-year relationship, she told the court. Within months of the relationship starting, Rayner injured her wrist during a row outside the Hammersmith Apollo in February 2011. She left the court and went straight to a waiting black cab without commenting on the verdict to reporters.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2017 18:11 UTC