Man admits killing Lancashire mum of two in random attack
Preston Crown Court heard how he had rapped a song about killing just an hour before
A man has admitted murdering a Lancashire mum of two in a random, unprovoked attack on her own doorstep.
Anthony Stinson, 31, came across Charlotte Wilcock on the evening of March 3 as she smoked a cigarette in Primrose Terrace, Blackburn, before kicking her and stabbing her to death with a Stanley knife in her hallway.
Preston Crown Court heard how officers found a video on his phone that he had filmed an hour before, showing him rapping about killing someone.
Ms Wilcock's 15-month-old daughter was left alone upstairs until police officers discovered her the next day.
The 31-year-old mother, who did not know Stinson, was found dead behind her front door.
Speaking outside of court, detective chief inspector Mark Haworth-Oates, of Lancashire Police, said: "On March 3 this year Stinson approached Charlotte's address and, for reasons known only to him, launched a brutal attack on her on the doorstep.
"He slashed at her body numerous times in the ferocious assault - inflicting well over 50 individual injuries in the process, many with the use of a Stanley knife - as well as punching and kicking her.
"Charlotte had never met Stinson before that night and had no personal connection to him - she was merely sat on her own doorstep having a cigarette.
"She should have been safe and could never have foreseen what was about to happen.
Stinson is due to be sentenced on Thursday.