“I don’t wanna know what you would do to me behind closed doors”Adam Everett Crown Court Reporter and Ashlie Blakey Live and breaking news reporter
10:34, 18 Oct 2025
Rebekah Campbell(Image: Liverpool Echo)
A woman told her boyfriend “I don’t wanna know what you would do to me behind closed doors” just days before he killed her.
Michael Ormandy was found guilty this week of murdering his girlfriend Rebekah Campbell after a two-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
Rebekah, 32, was stabbed 27 times in her own flat at Knowsley Heights in Huyton in April this year, reports the Liverpool Echo. Her boyfriend claimed self-defence during the incident, despite only sustaining a single cut to his hand during the altercation, which required minor hospital treatment.
Meanwhile, Rebekah was left blood-soaked as she collapsed outside the block of flats, having suffered 18 stab wounds and been slashed nine more times with a knife. It was reported that she pleaded “get out, go away Mick” as he burst into her home unannounced wearing a bulletproof vest and brutally attacked her.
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As police officers rushed to the scene, she asked them “am I gonna die?” as they desperately tried to save her life. Just three days prior, the “jealous and possessive” Ormandy had given his partner a black eye after punching her during a night out in Liverpool city centre.
The self-confessed drug dealer then slept with another woman at a hotel and told her he was “going to Liverpool to sort something out” just hours before the fatal stabbing.
The former boxer and cage fighter, who sports a tattoo reading “The Hitman” across his neck, rang the police in the early hours claiming to have a “suicide vest” and threatening to “blow everyone up”. After being arrested, he suggested that his victim “must have stabbed herself”.
Michael Ormandy was found guilty of murder(Image: Merseyside Police)
David McLachlan KC, prosecuting, informed the court last week that Ms Campbell was at her flat around 10.30pm on April 15 when Ormandy arrived. Faye Henderson, who was on the phone with Rebekah at the time, reported hearing her friend yell “go away, get out Mick” before a “loud bang” and the sound of puppies barking were heard, after which the call “went quiet”.
CCTV then captured Ormandy leaving the building as Ms Campbell emerged from her flat shouting “I’ve been stabbed”. After collapsing outside, she told neighbours who came to help: “My fella stabbed me.”
While being taken to Aintree Hospital in an ambulance, Ms Campbell asked emergency service workers “am I gonna die?” One police officer reassured her that she was “hurt but in the best place”. She passed away in the early hours of April 16.
The incident reportedly occurred against the backdrop of a relationship that “wasn’t going well”, with Ms Campbell seemingly “ready to end it”. An altercation took place on the evening of April 12, when she was reported to have thrown a shoe at Ormandy and slapped him while they were out drinking at Revolver bar on Mathew Street.
A second “heated incident” then broke out between the couple later the same night at Beer Engine on Hardman Street, with Rebekah seen “kicking out” at Ormandy before he struck her in the face. She was left in tears after falling to the floor, suffering a black eye as a result of this blow.
The court heard about a series of messages exchanged between the couple in the days following this incident. These began in the early hours of April 13, with Ms Campbell texting Ormandy: “Just another one to beat me in front of everyone. You wanna see my f***ing face.
“You hit me ‘cos I sung a song with John, threatening Faye, her house and me. Sort your head out. You’re nasty. I look like the f***ing Elephant Man.”
Shortly after 6am, Ormandy then messaged Ms Campbell saying: “You carry on with those lads and me and Clio will be sweet. You staying with them? Picking [them] over us yeah? Me and Clio [her dog] stuck in rain while you’re doing your thing.
“If you can stop messaging your lads you’ve got lined up next. Yeno what, f*** off with you staying with your lads. Police have took my dogs, are taking my f***ing dogs, I think. Me and Clio are good, we’re off.”
Rebekah Campbell(Image: Merseyside Police/Family handout )
Ms Campbell later replied saying that she “couldn’t show her face to anyone” as her “eyes were closed over”, after which Ormandy told her: “Me and Clio going Wales until tomorrow. You can stay with any one of those lads you been seeing.”
But Ms Campbell responded: “I’m with family, but you keep accusing me. You’re just insecure. I don’t deserve this or the s*** you’re accusing me of.”
When Ormandy then said that she had “tried to set him up”, Ms Campbell replied: “Don’t you dare accuse me of anything. You’re just horrible. I’m not setting you up. I know you don’t trust me at all. Proved that tonight. I wouldn’t set you up.”
But Ormandy went on to accuse her of “touching every lad in Revolver” and said that he “had nothing left to lose”, adding: “I’m sure you will be with someone next week and I will just be a forgotten memory. You must have flirted with and grinded on every lad and most girls in there.”
Text messages between the pair then continued throughout the rest of the day, with Ms Campbell telling Ormandy: “What do you expect me to do? Come running after you when I can’t even show my face in public. You said you would never hit me, and it took you three months.”
Ormandy, however, alleged that she had “taken no responsibility for attacking him about eight times throughout the night”, before Ms Campbell said: “Here come the threats then, like clockwork. You take no responsibility for what you have done to me. Can’t even open my eye. The force you hit me, f***ing comboed me like a man.”
In another exchange, Ormandy claimed: “You kicked and slapped me. I went outside to get away from you. I was twisted and para’ed up. It shouldn’t have happened, but you attacked me about eight times last night.”
Ms Campbell countered by saying she was “getting called a slut and slag all night”, adding: “I want to go home to my bed. I don’t want to see you. I’m scared of you now. I don’t wanna know what you would do to me behind closed doors.”
Ormandy responded with “I was twisted and went psychotic, but you was hitting me”, to which Ms Campbell later admitted that she had “slapped him for calling her a slag and slut in front of everyone”. The exchange continued on April 15, when Rebekah messaged her partner: “I don’t even know if I want to be with you after what’s happened. You’re too possessive and jealous, plus you come to my house with a knife and act like it’s ok. No, it’s f***ing not. And try to intimidate me.
“I’ll be your mate, but I’m not getting into a relationship with you again. It’s toxic. Been there, done that. I’m not having you calling me a slag, causing s*** with my family and friends over me singing with my mates. The way you have acted is not normal.”
At 10.17pm, whilst Ms Campbell was speaking on the phone to Ms Henderson and he had entered her building, Ormandy then sent her a voice note saying “sitting there with Faye laughing and joking about me, are you?”.
This prompted her to reply: “Wtf you on about? See what I mean, paranoid to f***. Make it sound like you’re intimidating me again. Speak to you tomorrow.”
In a final audio message, Ormandy added: “No, speak to me now. Am I your fella or not?”.
Rebekah went on to send a final text to Ormandy at 10.23pm, telling him: “Right now, after giving me s*** all night and giving me a shiner, no. I’m hurt, injured and upset and you’re trying to laugh it off like it’s funny and acceptable. No it’s not. For me, it’s traumatising. Looking at myself like this brings it all back. I’m not doing a toxic relationship again.”
During the afternoon before the murder, Ormandy had booked accommodation at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Southport and had sex with another woman.
He was said to have told this witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, that he was “going to Liverpool to sort something out” as he later departed for the evening. Within two hours of the stabbing, Ormandy went on to call police and stated: “The police are at my flat now. If they touch my dogs, I’m going to start killing police officers, one by one. I’m going to start shooting if anything happens to my dogs. My dogs are my babies.
“I promise on my kid’s life. I’ve got a suicide vest and I’ll blow everyone up. I’ve got nothing to lose now. Yous couldn’t do your f***ing job, now look what happens. I’m the bad guy because of the world we live in. It’s a f***ing joke.
“I’m gonna blow myself up. I’m gonna blow everyone up if anyone goes near my f***ing dogs. I’ve got a suicide vest on. I’m going to kill everyone. I promise, I will kill yous all. My dogs are my babies. I will kill for them.”
After armed officers detained him on a canal towpath, Ormandy commented that “this wouldn’t have happened if you did your job last week”.
Police later retrieved his mobile phone from the water after he apparently “tried to ditch” the device.
When informed at this point that Ms Campbell had suffered an estimated 20 stab wounds, Ormandy responded: “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.”
However, a Home Office post-mortem examination subsequently revealed that Ms Campbell had indeed sustained a total of 27 “incised wounds” during a “sustained, violent assault”, consisting of 18 stab wounds and nine slash wounds which were “concentrated on the left side of the body”. A pathologist found that this was “in keeping with the use of severe force”, with injuries on her left arm also said to be “indicative of defence injuries as she tried to fend off an attack”.
In his testimony, Ormandy spoke about his visit to Ms Campell’s flat: “We had a brief argument. I was saying, ‘look are we in a relationship or not, I need to know’. Obviously, I had alternative plans if she said no. We just ended up in an argument. I just said ‘I’m not bothered, I’ll go back and sleep with the woman I’ve just been sleeping with’. I think she thought I was lying.
“Sometimes, with my ADHD, I don’t think before I speak. I was like, blimey, what have I just said? I went back round, went back in. She was standing by the breakfast bar. I was just saying, ‘look, I was only messing, I didn’t mean it’. Literally, within, I’d say about 15, 20 seconds, she just lunged at me.
“She picked [the knife] up and just turned and come at me in a downward motion. I grabbed the knife with my right hand. With the momentum of her coming towards me, I’ve fell back over the puppies and landed in the middle of the floor.
“[The knife] basically come loose as we landed. We’re both just scrambling for the knife. I managed to get the knife first, I think. She was trying to get it still. I remember hitting her once. I think I stabbed her. I was fighting for my life, do you know what I mean? I didn’t realise I had the knife. I was in a fight or flight situation. I thought the knife had come loose again.
“When you’re fighting for your life, it just goes blank. I still can’t remember being in there that long to this day. 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.”
Ormandy was found guilty of murdering Ms Campbell on Wednesday, a verdict that was met with cheers from her friends and family after two hours and 16 minutes of deliberation. The 34-year-old defendant, residing at Linacre Road in Litherland, responded to the verdict with a smile, clapping and shouting towards the public gallery: “Come on, cloud nine. I know where yous all live you daft c***s.”
The Honorary Recorder of Liverpool, Judge Andrew Menary KC, who oversaw the trial, warned Ormandy that he would be ejected from the courtroom if he did not remain quiet. Ormandy said: “I’ll go out. It doesn’t bother me.”
As Ormandy left the dock to be taken to the cells, still clapping, Ms Campbell’s loved ones bid him “bye bye”. He returned to court the next day to receive a life sentence, with a minimum term of 24 years.
As he was led back to the cells, shouts of “nonce” and “s***house” rang out from the public gallery, to which he responded: “You little tramp. You little rat.”