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    Teen Murdered Girlfriend In Garlic Bread Row

    A teenager has admitted stabbing his girlfriend to death in a row over garlic bread.

    James Ellis, 18, said he killed Alami Gotip because she had been "moaning at him" over his failure to make garlic bread for their dinner.

    The woman's two young children, to a different father, lay asleep upstairs while she was stabbed more than 30 times on May 25.

    The body of 22-year-old Miss Gotip was found in the living room of the home in Livingston, West Lothian.

    Immediately after the murder, Ellis had been seen standing in the front garden covered in blood and holding two knives.

    He told police he thought his relationship with Alami, who worked for HM Revenue & Customs, was finishing and he could not imagine her with anyone else.

    Following Ellis' guilty plea at the High Court in Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Phil Gachagan of Lothian and Border Police told Sky News: "The brutal violence Alami Gotip was subjected to prior to her death is testament to the violent and remorseless character of James Ellis.

    "Despite being in a relationship with Miss Gotip and although her children were sleeping within the property, Ellis showed her no compassion during the attack and inflicted several serious injuries upon her.

    "His guilty plea reflects the comprehensive work carried out by Lothian and Borders Police to build a murder case against him and he will undoubtedly face a lengthy prison sentence.

    "I would like to thank Miss Gotip's loved ones for all of their assistance and support during this investigation, and I sincerely hope that following James Ellis' sentencing, they can begin to move on with their lives."

    James Ellis, who pleaded guilty to murder, is due to be sentenced on October 5.

     

    95 comments

    • European  •  5 months ago
      We need to follow the Chinese example, murderers are executed by being shot in the brain.
    • Ariane  •  5 months ago
      I don't think prison will make him a better person nor will it give him time to reflect on what he did, I think he is a very disturbed person who couldn't even control himself in the slightest.
      How do you stab someone you love 30 times and not regret it after the first stab and therefore stop and call the emergency services?
      I think they should bring back the death penalty, otherwise when he gets out after being fed, kept warm and watching TV for the next umpteen years he will do it again, so save someone else's life and put an end to him now.
    • Strewth  •  5 months ago
      Best article I've ever read on here Ton.
    • easy Item  •  5 months ago
      The POLICE make out that they work hard to solve this case, ???
    • Gazza's second coming  •  5 months ago
      He should be hung..the creep will be out of prison in seven years or less!!..and all at the expense of the taxpayer,the creep will need housing, benefits,support..just hang the B@$&%£"..
    • robo  •  5 months ago
      can we not just hang this fucking cunt and be done with it please
    • jonathan  •  5 months ago
      Why did the police have to 'build a case' if this piece of shite was standing in the garden covered in blood and holding 2 knives? Of have I missed the point?
    • Exhausted Vent  •  5 months ago
      One thought it was the future, the other didn't.

      There will be a call to ban garlic bread now.
    • MikeP  •  5 months ago
      "His guilty plea reflects the comprehensive work carried out by Lothian and Borders Police to build a murder case against him"

      He was found in the garden covered in blood and holding 2 knives, for f's sake!! Did they think it could have been suicide?
    • riply  •  5 months ago
      As for bringing back the death penalty, studies have shown that it would not reduce the number of murders.It would only be a revenge, and one problem with it is that sometimes people are convicted wrongly, only much later to be exonerated, too late, if the death penalty had been in place for the poor victim of the miscarriage of justice to claim his or her liberty.
    • riply  •  5 months ago
      And a retired gentleman in the British Midlands was killed one sunny summer afternoon when he was out in his back garden relaxing among his floewers, bya two-ton block of frozen urine that fell out of an airplane.Death comes through many doors, and at some its harrd for others not to laugh.And we won`t be there either to laugh or cry at our own means of exit from this vale of tears.
    • riply  •  5 months ago
      An American man killed his wife by battering her to death at the breakfast table because she wouldn`t pass the salt.
    • BUBBA  •  5 months ago
      Clearly this wasn't about the 'garlic bread' ! `She probably screwed-up the rest of the meal too!
    • John  •  5 months ago
      From the newpaper: The Scotsman

      On the evening of the murder, the girls were asleep by the time Ellis arrived at the house in Nigel Rise, Dedridge, Livingston. During the day, he had taken Valium and cannabis. Neighbours heard banging, followed by silence.

      Sobbing Ellis arrived at a relative's home nearby and said: "I've stabbed her…about 40 times. I lost it." A short time later, he told a friend: "She's finally cracked me…she pushed me to it."

      Ellis confessed to his mother and she contacted the emergency services. He went with his father to the police, after telling him that he and Ms Gotip had been having an argument over garlic bread.

      Officers arrived at the house and saw a body on the couch.

      "Because there were children's toys in the house, officers checked upstairs and found the children asleep in their bedrooms," said Mrs Tanner.

      Ellis stated at the police station: "I'll take it on the chin. It shouldn't have happened. I just snapped. I just got sick of it."

      Asked why he had stabbed Ms Gotip, he said she had been moaning at him because he had not made garlic bread for tea. He said he had got everything nice and she had called him a "useless piece of s***" and said he could not do anything right.
    • Jamie  •  5 months ago
      i agree with alot of the comments on here let the prisoners rip him to pieces. death for scum like that.
    • Jamie  •  5 months ago
      please tell me how can people on here make jokes about fuckin garlic bread. makes me so angry. as for anyone saying she deserved it an its alright to hit women. i think not for fucks sake.
    • B  •  5 months ago
      total control freak,what he has done he should be slaughted slowly n painfully,What a waste of a younger mothers life,not just her but her kids and family,their lives will never be the same.so sorry for the familys loss.
    • John  •  5 months ago
      He can get away with his crime by saying it was the drug that made him do it.
    • John  •  5 months ago
      His pic looks like Ewan McGregor in the film Trainspotting.
    • robin y  •  5 months ago
      this has to be drug related. Sad a young mother has died because of one of societies worst problems. RIP