Ex-boyfriend accused of killing Rae, 19

A "JEALOUS and controlling" ex-boyfriend stabbed to death a 19-year-old Bexhill girl after she started seeing another man, a court heard.

Dellwyn James, 31, allegedly launched a frenzied attack on HSBC bank clerk Rae Torbet, with two kitchen knives after their relationship ended.

Miss Torbet, the daughter of Sussex police officer Det Chief Insp Jim Torbet, died from 15 stab wounds to the neck and face after the attack in her home in Cantelupe Road.

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Lewes Crown Court heard how Miss Torbet had started seeing James in August last year, but split up with him shortly before her death in March after he accused her of seeing another man.

Prosecutor Philip Katz QC said: "He was a jealous and controlling boyfriend and in his own admission to police he was to tell them he had provoked a row with her by falsely accusing her of going out with someone else, and their relationship was over.

"The prosecution say that two weeks after that he went to her flat, getting in with a key he had tricked out of a friend, and killed her.

"Rae Torbet was the young woman who was murdered in this case and was 19 at the time of her death, this defendant was 31.

James denies murder.

The trial continues.

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