Stranger murdered mum as she sat on her doorstep having a cigarette in horrific random attack

A stranger who murdered a mum-of-two on her doorstep rapped about killing someone just an hour before the attack, police said.

Anthony Stinson came across Charlotte Wilcock as she smoked a cigarette on her doorstep in Blackburn on the evening of March 3, Lancs Live reports. He claimed he had 'seen the Devil' before 'ferociously' kicking her and stabbing her to death with a Stanley knife in her hallway.

Ms Wilcock’s 15-month-old daughter was left alone upstairs until police officers discovered her the next day. After the attack, detectives searched Stinson's phone and found a video of him and a friend rapping about killing someone.

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It was recorded just an hour before Ms Wilcock, 31, was murdered. Stinson, 31, claimed he had been suffering from psychosis when he killed her.

Stinson, of Queen Victoria Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to Ms Wilcock’s murder at Preston Crown Court on Monday and will be sentenced on Thursday (August 24).

Speaking outside of court, detective chief inspector Mark Haworth-Oates, of Lancashire Police, said: "On March 3 this year Stinson approached Charlotte’s address and, for reasons known only to him, launched a brutal attack on her on the doorstep. He slashed at her body numerous times in the ferocious assault – inflicting well over 50 individual injuries in the process, many with the use of a Stanley knife – as well as punching and kicking her.

"Charlotte had never met Stinson before that night and had no personal connection to him – she was merely sat on her own doorstep having a cigarette. She should have been safe and could never have foreseen what was about to happen.

"It is clear from speaking to