A 28-year-old cruise line employee in the UK was killed in an “insane” attack by her ex-boyfriend, who was furious when he saw her on a Tinder date with another man, prosecutors say in a report.
Disused lover Abdelaziz El Yechioui Ourzat, 30, was videotaped in September 2019 ‘hiding in the shadows’ outside the Giddy Bridge pub in Southampton where Cristina Ortiz-Lozano had gone with the man she met on the dating app , the British underground reported.
Ourzat followed the couple as they returned to her home, where he reportedly stabbed her with a kitchen knife 23 times, a Winchester Crown Court jury was told Wednesday.
Prosecutor Kerry Maylin told Ourzat “a jealous ex-boyfriend in a fit of anger who carried out a frenzied attack on her simply because she dated a man on the night of the murder, not Mr. Ourzat.”
Ortiz-Lozano and Ourzat met at a school in Spain and had been together for about 12 years before dumping him when he was arrested for drunk driving in August 2019, Metro said.
She “couldn’t take his volatility and his drunkenness any longer,” Maylin said, but when she told Ourzat to leave, he raged around the house they shared, ripping lighting fixtures and radiators from the walls.
Ourzat was charged with criminal damage and then allegedly violated his bail by sending his ex-abusive emails.
After the fleeting breakup, Ortiz-Lozano met Vincente Breso-Biosca on Tinder and went on the fateful date, in which Ourzat bought some flowers and took them to her house before returning to the pub.
When Ortiz-Lozano saw Ourzat, she told her date about her “abusive” ex and asked if they could leave because he couldn’t get near her due to his bail conditions, Maylin told the jury.
“Mr. Ourzat was clearly following them. He is seen on CCTV and follows them across the street and hangs or hangs back at intersections,” she said.
After Ourzat followed Ortiz-Lozano to her house, Breso-Biosca heard screams and went inside.
“He saw Miss Ortiz-Lozano already lying on her back on the kitchen floor, with Mr. Our squatting over her with a knife in one hand and the other on her throat,” Maylin said.
“She had her eyes open, but he believed she was already dead, she didn’t move,” she added. “He described Mr. Ourzat turning to him, closing the door and continuing his attack on Cristina Ortiz-Lozano.”
Ortiz-Lozano sustained stab wounds to her chest, neck and abdomen and defensive wounds on her arms, “where she raised her arms in front of her in an attempt to protect her torso and neck,” the jury was told.
Ourzat, who claims Ortiz-Lozano stabbed him first, pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility.