A failed businessman who stalked his former girlfriend as she walked home from work then stabbed her to death as her new boyfriend hid behind a bin, has been jailed for life.
Dennis Akpomedaye, 30, waited for 21-year-old Ania Jedrkowiak to finish her shift at a Latin American restaurant in Ealing, west London, on May 16 last year before following her and partner Jack Maskell.
The trial at Kingston Crown Court heard Akpomedaye, who was wearing a mask, suddenly attacked Jedrkowiak as the couple took a shortcut behind a church just after midnight.
Prosecutor Deanna Heer, KC, said Jedrkowiak was stabbed 40 times and one wound was so deep it gave the impression he may have been trying to “decapitate” her….