Jealous Lover Stabbed Ex-Girlfriend Over Facebook Photos

A jealous ex-boyfriend has been accused of stabbing his former girlfriend 20 times after he saw photos of her on Facebook with another man.

Internet technician Paul Bristol, of Trinidad, stands accused of murdering accountant Camille Mathurasingh, in her London home in 2009.

Bristol and Mathurasingh had met and started dating while Mathurasingh was working in Trinidad, the Telegraph reports. After three years abroad, the accountant returned to the UK, where she and Bristol continued a long distance relationship.

However, according to the prosecuting attorney Simon Denison, Mathurasingh began seeing another man following her return to England.

'It would appear she tried to bring about the end of her relationship with this defendant gently and did not tell him about her new boyfriend,' Denison told the court. 'He found out when he saw pictures of them together on Facebook.'

The Times Online reports the alleged sequence of events leading up to Mathurasingh's murder.

Mr Bristol arrived in the UK on April 2, 2009, and by 1.30pm the next day he had killed her and stabbed himself several times, the court heard.

He then drove her car at speed towards the centre of London before crashing and flipping the vehicle over, the jury heard.

He immediately told police that he had tried to kill his girlfriend and had stabbed himself but when interviewed he refused to answer questions, it was alleged.

Bristol, 25, is pleading guilty to manslaughter.

He is not the first to face jail time because of a Facebook-related dispute turned violent.

In the past two years alone, photos and other profile information posted on Facebook has led to a multitude of crimes.

On January 23, 2009, a 41-year-old British man was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in prison for stabbing his wife, 28, to death in 2008 after she changed her Facebook marital status to "single."

In 2008, another British man-- a 35-year-old truck driver--was sentenced to life in prison after brutally murdering his estranged wife. She had posted on Facebook that her marriage was over and that she wanted to meet other men, according to the Times Online.

Comments

[candicemathurasingh]

08:20 PM on 03/01/2010

I am a member of Camille's family and there is nothing I can post up here that can describe the pain and grief this has caused. Camille was loved and respected by everyone she knew. I am appealing to your human side when I ask that this not to be a discussion forum. She is gone for Christ's sake let her rest in peace and at least her family the peace of not having to see these hurtful comments

[candicemathurasingh]

08:17 PM on 03/01/2010

I am a member of Camille's family and there is nothing I can post up here that can describe the pain and grief this has caused. Camille was loved and respected by everyone she knew. I am appealing to your human side when I ask that this not to be a discussion forum. She is gone for Christ's sake let her rest in peace and at least her family the peace of not having to see these hurtful comments.

[DannyEV]

12:52 PM on 02/20/2010

it's not about facebook AT ALL. the tabloids had plenty of stories about this kind of jealousy-driven murder of ex-gf's and ex-wives long before FB existed.

I guess that's something else HP has in common with tabloids, huh?

[FloridaLAW]

09:37 AM on 02/20/2010

I think it's a story about obsession and perceived betrayal (not Facebook pictures). Not to blame the victim but is it wise to post pictures of yourself with the new guy before you've told the old guy that it's over?

[ElleJay]

07:10 AM on 02/20/2010

What does an Internet technician do? LOL

Sad stories :-(

[DannyEV]

12:52 PM on 02/20/2010

that's an interesting question. guess you'd have to ask someone from Trinidad.

[Dham4201]

07:00 AM on 02/20/2010

Newsworthy why? This happens every day all over the world. FB is just another medium for these things to occur

[SamEasy]

05:57 AM on 02/20/2010

Unfortunately, this brings new meaning to the saying; 'timing is everything'. Facebook is a medium that demands some intelligent decisions for sure. My sincere sympathy to her family....

[SamEasy]

05:53 AM on 02/20/2010

Unfortunately, this brings new meaning to the term.....'timing is everything'.

[iKillGiraFFes]

11:09 PM on 02/19/2010

Facebook Ska N. k s.

[2000watts]

10:25 PM on 02/19/2010

If she had only "un-friended" him ...

[Onedog]

10:10 PM on 02/19/2010

Rejection and revenge, the dude had no concept of the meaning of love.

[Sean 6399]

08:47 PM on 02/19/2010

Not a story about facebook.

Just another love triangle story that ends in tragedy. I bet the same junk was going on between pre-human hominids.

[f0rTyLeGz]

12:54 AM on 02/20/2010

Exactly! Just one more story about a man killing a woman who rejects him.

[Unimatrix42]

08:12 PM on 02/19/2010

Some folks really shouldn't have access to the internet.

[shag11]

07:59 PM on 02/19/2010

I learned a lesson from an employer once, and it was about her very long marriage. She told me that they got along well because they promised each other that if things didn't work, they should walk away. Sounds simple, but they always had that out, and that small out helped them to persevere.
People should be allowed to end a relationship with losing their life over it. This is much too common.

[CherrySpring]

07:01 PM on 02/19/2010

This is really sad, and a manslaughter plea is unjust.