A woman who was part of a man-hating WhatsApp group stabbed her boyfriend to death as he slept then calmly smoked a joint, a court has heard.

Alex Glanfield-Collis, 25, plunged a knife into John Maclean’s neck at her flat on April 12 this year, it is claimed.

She then allegedly left the 35-year-old to bleed to death and wandered out onto the communal balcony, lit up a cannabis joint and cracked open a beer.

Alex Glanfield-Collis, 25, ‘plunged a knife into John Maclean’s neck at her flat’ (Picture: Google)

Glanfield-Collis was part of a WhatsApp group called ‘The C**t Club’ which was full of insulting and abusive comments from women about their boyfriends.


Lisa Wilding, prosecuting, said: ‘As he slept, Alex Glanfield-Collis stabbed him once in his neck with a large hunting-type knife.



‘The knife passed through his neck muscle, his windpipe, a major artery and finally his chest cavity.

‘As he lay bleeding she calmly walked downstairs and told her 16-year-old stepson that she had killed his dad.

‘She then went out onto the communal balcony. Out there, she smoked a spliff, opened a beer and called the police.’

Glanfield-Collis was part of a WhatsApp group called ‘The C**t Club’ (Picture: Getty)

Police found Mr Maclean with a large wound to his neck and he died an hour later, jurors heard.

Glanfield-Collis admitted killing Mr Maclean but she claims she cannot remember the attack.

She said she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after years of abuse from him and must have lost her temper, the Old Bailey heard.

When she dialled 999 on the morning of the murder she told the operator: ‘I just killed my boyfriend. I stabbed him in the neck.’

Prosecutor Wilding continued: ‘The prosecution say that she stabbed him in a rage and in anger, vengefully, intending at the very least to cause him serious harm and that she is therefore guilty of murdering him.’

She said the voice messages the couple exchanged ‘reveal a turbulent relationship with highs and lows’.

Alex Glanfield-Collis, of Manchester Road, Isle of Dogs, east London, denied murdering her boyfriend at the Old Bailey (Picture: PA)

‘It is apparent that John lost his temper frequently and left horrible messages for Ms Glanfield-Collis, for example if she didn’t pick up the phone when he was trying to get hold of her. Sometimes he would apologise,’ she said.

‘They also reveal a lot about her attitude towards him.’

Ms Wilding said she had ‘strong opinions and wasn’t afraid to voice them’.

‘For example, a few months before the murder on December 8 last year, she told John he needs to sort himself out because he’s getting more and more of an arsehole and he should f**k off to his house because he’s a bully and should stop calling her just to talk s**t. She gave as good as she got.’

Glanfield-Collis once joked in the WhatsApp group: ‘Hahaha d***head John’s looking at me strange now like “why’s she laughing at her phone”.’

They once joked about one of the women tying her husband to a chair and either killing or having sex with him.



Glanfield-Collis commented: ‘Well you never know with the c***s we have chosen to have kids with.’

Two days later she killed her partner, jurors heard.

Glanfield-Collis, of Manchester Road, Isle of Dogs, east London, denies murder. The trial continues.

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