Holly Newton's mum believes her murder by an ex-boyfriend was an act of domestic violence.
In January last year 15-year-old Holly Newton was stalked and then murdered by her teenage ex-boyfriend. She was too young to be classed as a victim of domestic violence but her family believes her death should be recognised as such in order to help save young lives in the future.
"It was all just control, everything was controlling and when he couldn't control her there was a problem."Micala and her partner Lee had not realised there was an issue until Holly's friends pointed out how "toxic" MacPhail's behaviour was."I don't think she understood it was happening to her until the very last few days."
The night before MacPhail murdered Holly, he waited for hours outside her family home in Haltwhistle claiming he just wanted to get his games console back.Eventually he was taken home by the police after they were alerted to his whereabouts by his mother."I think if somehow managed to get into the house it could have been a whole different story – we could have been looking at maybe more than one murder," Micala says.
He went on to stab her multiple times in an alleyway during an attack that was so frenzied that the kitchen knife snapped.He also told jurors Holly had hugged him and said she loved him and he thought he was stabbing himself "but it went too far".Micala Trussler says lessons must be learned from her daughter's murder
Throughout the trial the defence team suggested that his various issues meant he did not understand the consequences of his actions.Lee and Micala Trussler hope Holly's story may educate others about domestic abuse in young relationshipsBecause her daughter washer death will instead be filed for statistical reasons as a knife crime.
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