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| Boyfriend guilty of model murder | |
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| The boyfriend of a model who was stabbed to death in Greater Manchester has been found guilty of her murder. | The boyfriend of a model who was stabbed to death in Greater Manchester has been found guilty of her murder. |
| A jury found Ricardo Morrison, 22, from Birmingham, guilty of killing Amy Leigh Barnes at her grandmother's house in Farnworth near Bolton. | |
| The 19-year-old's father found her bleeding to death in November 2008. | The 19-year-old's father found her bleeding to death in November 2008. |
| Morrison's mother, Pc Melda Wilks, has pleaded not guilty to assisting an offender. The jury has not yet returned with her verdict. | Morrison's mother, Pc Melda Wilks, has pleaded not guilty to assisting an offender. The jury has not yet returned with her verdict. |
| Morrison stabbed Miss Barnes nine times and with such force that her liver had been perforated, the jury heard during the three-week trial. | |
| Foetal position | |
| The model, who had appeared in Hollyoaks and modelled for Cosmopolitan, dialled 999 after the attack, telling the operator, "I'm dying. He's stabbed me to death. I'm dying. Please help me." | |
| The operator asked who had stabbed her and she said, "My boyfriend", the court was told. | |
| Shortly after the attack, her father, Andrew Barnes, arrived to find his daughter curled in the foetal position, flitting in and out of consciousness. | |
| The court heard Morrison attacked her after the couple had a row that day, one of many during their stormy nine-month relationship. |