A MAN who killed his ex-girlfriend re-enacted how he stabbed her with a table knife, in front of a jury.

Scaffolder Vaso Aliu, aged 29, appeared at the Old Bailey and described how he stabbed his former girlfriend at Euston station on January 11, when she told him "I don't care anymore".

In the weeks leading up to her death, Dutch-born Marquerite van Campenhout, 24, had taken refuge in Beckenham.

She was staying with friend Thomas Pontifex, who was also stabbed in the attack, at his family's Manor Grove home.

Miss Van Campenhout had said she was scared of what Aliu would do after they split up as he failed to accept their relationship was over.

In court, Aliu said "people were like toys who did not move at all", as he described how he reached for a table knife wrapped in paper from his pocket when his girlfriend told him she didn't care.

He added: "I said, This is a knife'. I ripped the paper from the blade. Marquerite was two feet from me and my hand went to stab her in the chest.

"I don't know how many times I tried to stab her."

Aliu said he was grabbed from behind by Mr Pontifex and they both fell to the ground.

Describing how he then ran up the escalator, he said he began cutting his own throat "very slowly" before stabbing himself in the stomach.

Aliu denies trying to kill Mr Pontifex, a 27-year-old office worker, who received a serious arm injury, claiming it was an accident.

He also denies stabbing a Middlesborough man, Christopher Kiely, who jumped off an incoming train to tackle him.

Aliu, of Finchley Road, Hampstead, denies murder and wounding with intent but has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

The trial continues.

11:53am Tuesday 10th September 2002

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