Michael Ormandy, 34, donned a bulletproof vest, stabbed his 32-year-old girlfriend Rebekah Campbell a total of 27 times and then claimed he acted in self-defence, a court heard
A dad who stabbed his girlfriend to death brazenly taunted her family after his conviction, saying: “I know where yous all live.”
Evil Michael Ormandy, 34, killed Rebekah Campbell, 32, by stabbing her 27 times inside her flat at Knowsley Heights in Huyton in April this year. The former cage fighter and boxer, of Linacre Road, Litherland, has been on trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of her murder.
Ormandy, who bears a tattoo of the words “The Hitman” across the front of his neck, claimed he acted in self-defence, suffering only a small cut to his hand which required minor treatment in hospital. Rebekah, however, was left covered in blood after collapsing outside the block of flats, having suffered 18 stab wounds and nine further slashes.
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The victim pleaded “get out, go away Mick” as Ormandy burst into her home unannounced and brutally attacked her, the court heard. She is said to have asked police officers at the scene, “Am I gonna die?” as they desperately tried to save her life, Liverpool Echo reports.
Just three days earlier, the “jealous and possessive” killer had left Rebekah with a black eye after punching her during a night out in Liverpool city centre. The self-confessed drug dealer then had sex with another woman at a hotel and told her he was “going to Liverpool to sort something out” only hours before the stabbing.
Ormandy then called police and chillingly claimed he had a “suicide vest” before threatening to “blow everyone up”. After his arrest, he went on to remark that the victim “must have stabbed herself”.
Following a two-week trial, Ormandy was unanimously found guilty of Rebekah’s murder by a jury of nine men and three women this afternoon, Wednesday.
Cheers were heard from her friends and family as the verdict was returned after two hours and 16 minutes of deliberations, while Ormandy smiled, clapped and shouted: “Come on, cloud nine. I know where yous all live you daft c***s.”
The judge warned him to be silent, but Ormandy said: “I’ll go out. It doesn’t bother me.” Her loved ones waved “bye bye” as he was led down to the cells, still clapping. Sentencing is scheduled for Thursday morning.
On the matter of whether Ormandy had armed himself with a knife prior to attending Rebekah’s flat, Judge Andrew Menary KC said: “In any event, the defendant’s evidence is that he was someone who habitually carried knives, which is a very substantial aggravating feature of this case, and one was used. If not taken [a knife] was picked up by him very quickly, my provisional view being that at no stage did Rebekah Campbell ever have a knife in her hand.”
David McLachlan KC, prosecuting, told the court last week that Rebekah was home at her flat at around 10.30pm on April 15, 2025 when Ormandy arrived at her address. Faye Henderson, who was speaking to Rebekah on the phone at the same time, reported that her friend shouted “go away, get out Mick” before a “loud bang” and the sound of puppies barking silenced the line.
CCTV captured Ormandy leaving as Rebekah stumbled out of her building, screaming, “I’ve been stabbed,” and telling neighbours, “My fella stabbed me.” On the way to Aintree Hospital, she asked paramedics, “Am I gonna die?” She was pronounced dead in the early hours of April 16.
The murder was said to have come amid a relationship which “wasn’t going well” and that Rebekah was “ready to end”. Just days earlier, Rebekah was said to have slapped Ormandy and thrown a shoe at him during a night out at Revolver bar on Mathew Street. Later that same night, she was punched by Ormandy outside Beer Engine on Hardman Street, leaving her in tears with a black eye, the court heard.
Following his arrest on a canal towpath by armed officers, Ormandy remarked that “this wouldn’t have happened if you did your job last week”. His mobile phone was subsequently recovered from the water after he “tried to ditch” the device.
When told Rebekah had been stabbed around 20 times, Ormandy replied: “20 times? There’s no way. She must have stabbed herself. As soon as I walked in, she started attacking me. She had the knife ready. She can’t have been stabbed 20 times. No, that’s not even possible.”
But a Home Office post-mortem investigation confirmed that Rebekah had suffered a total of 27 “incised wounds” during a “sustained, violent assault”, involving 18 stab wounds and nine slash wounds which were “concentrated on the left side of the body”. A pathologist said the injuries showed “severe force”, with marks on her left arm “indicative of defence injuries as she tried to fend off an attack”.
In his evidence, Ormandy said the incident began after an argument about their relationship. He claimed Rebekah attacked him with a knife, and he accidentally stabbed her while defending himself.
He said: “She was attacking me. I didn’t realise I was stabbing her. I thought I was just punching her. I didn’t intend to lay a finger on her. I just wanted to know whether we were in a relationship or not. I already had something lined up, in case it weren’t. It’s s***, it’s horrible, but it’s the truth.”
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