Tears of a killer

MURDER suspect Andre Bright admitted he had killed a young mum in Fitton Hill - but cried in the dock as he denied intending to do it.

Victoria Adams (22) was found with stab wounds at her home in Springwood Hall Close in December 2013.

At his trial at Manchester Crown Court yesterday Bright told Bernard Richmond, defending: “I am responsible for her death, yes.”

But when asked if he meant to kill, he cried “no, no, no” and broke down in the dock.

Bright said arrived drunk at Victoria’s home and picked up a knife for safety and ran around various upstairs rooms.

“I ran downstairs and that’s where it happened. She was at the bottom of the stairs. She was coming towards me and I ran into her. I remember the knife going in once and her holding her stomach. I started screaming.”

Bright said he did not remember how the second stab wound happened.

Mark Kellet, prosecuting, said the answers Bright gave the call handler when he rang the ambulance andother actions suggested a man who knew what he was doing. Bright said the incident didn’t feel real and he felt possessed.

Mr Kellet described this as “another example of invented mental health problems”.

Bright was drunk and high on cocaine in the weeks leading up to the incident which he said made him paranoid.

The jury heard 30-year-old Bright had previous convictions for carrying a knife and wounding with intent. In 2001 Bright was convicted of two charges of unlawful wounding after stabbing two men following an argument at a bar.

Bright was also convicted that year for GBH after shooting a man in the eye with a BB gun.

In 2007 Bright was convicted for assaulting a female partner. She was punched, spat on and kicked after confronting the defendant about his infidelity. Bright denies murder and a separate charge of assaulting a club bouncer.

The trial continues.