Mum’s agony over student, 23, stabbed to death because paranoid boyfriend thought she was having an affair with Jimmy Choo
Natasha Wild's devastated mum Sue said it was the 23-year-old's kindness that 'led to her death' after her partner stabbed at their home in Syke, near Rochdale
THE mum of a university student stabbed to death by her jealous boyfriend who thought she was having an affair with Jimmy Choo has revealed she begged her to leave him.
Natasha Wild, 23, kept a chilling diary that detailed the abuse she suffered at the hands of Lloyd Brackenbury, 32 before he stabbed her at their home in Syke near Rochdale in November 2016.
In it she told how paranoid Brackenbury accused her of cheating on him with the Malaysian shoe designer, as well as cheating on him and accusing her of being in the Mafia.
The tragic student's mum Sue has told how she urged her to dump him on the day she was brutally killed, but big-hearted Natasha insisted she could help Brackenbury.
Her heartbroken mother Sue, 51, who also lost her youngest son Alan and step-daughter Layla in a house fire in 2005, says: “Natasha was very caring and gentle and she loved looking after people.
“She knew Lloyd had his own problems and she felt she could help him. She had a heart of gold – but it was that kindness which led to her death.
Sue says she knew Natasha was unhappy with Lloyd, and on the day of her death, she was 'fed up and down-hearted.'
She added: “He would mimic her cerebral palsy or he would shout at her for no reason. Sometimes he didn’t allow her to cook or shower.
"He was very possessive and he found a reference to ‘Jimmy Choo’ in her diary, and presumed she was having an affair. He thought it was her boyfriend.
“I begged her to leave him but she insisted that he had problems and that she could help him – she felt she could save him from himself but I wasn’t so sure.
“On the day of her death, she visited me as usual and she was really fed-up and down-hearted.
“I told her she could do a lot better than Lloyd and I asked her to think about finishing it.
“I made her a sausage sandwich and she had some chocolates and she cheered up. She was a chocoholic and we had a giggle about that.”
But hours later, police knocked on Sue’s door to tell her that Natasha was dead.
Sue says: "When I saw the police on my doorstep it brought back the memories of Alan’s death and it sent a shiver down my spine. I knew something terrible had happened.
“Despite all my worries about Natasha, I could never have dreamed that Lloyd would kill her. I was devastated.
Brackenbury appeared before Manchester Crown Court in October last year.
He was cleared of murder and was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and ordered to be detained in a psychiatric hospital.
The court was told Brackenbury had called an ambulance to their house and when paramedics arrived they found Natasha on the sofa struggling to breath and Brackenbury was covered in blood.
Natasha, 23, was rushed to hospital but later died, and a post-mortem found she died of a single stab wound to the left lower neck.
Sue says: “We miss Natasha so much. I had hoped at the court case I might learn why he did it – why he took my gentle, loving daughter away from me.
“The truth is, I think she was just too kind-hearted for her own good.
"She thought she could help Lloyd and that belief killed her.”
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