When violence erupted on a quiet street in Halewood on the evening of October 29 2021, it was already an event out of the ordinary.
The normal peace of this corner of suburban Liverpool had been disturbed in a brutal fashion as Jordan Brophy was pinned against a Fiat 500 and knifed in the jugular. Only moments beforehand, the 31-year-old had been partially-blinded and left with broken fragments of a blade lodged in his brain.
But the location and the extreme violence used were far from the only unusual elements of Mr Brophy's death at the hands of Karl Townsend, which also encompassed a stabbed cat, mysterious stolen items and a Ring doorbell camera playing a pivotal role in the events unfolding. This is the story of how the lives of two former primary school classmates were entwined through a burglary gone wrong, with fatal consequences.
