Trial continues for British Asian soldier Trimaan Dhillon, 26 who murdered his girlfriend Alice Ruggles 24, by slitting her throat from “ear to ear” after the couple split. Dhillon, an army signaller who had planned to join the SAS subjected his former girlfriend to months of emotional blackmail and harassment before sneaking into her home to carry out this brutal attack.
Ruggles ended the relationship in October 2016 and declined to press charges against Dhillon's disturbing behaviour – a choice the prosecution claimed she declined because she was too kind-hearted.
The split-up was nasty and Dhillon's attempts to rekindle the relationship fell on deaf ears, aggravated his obsessive behaviour - and he left no stones unturned to harass her. He stalked her, created fake dating profiles to smear Ruggles' reputation, hacked into her social media accounts and forced her to report the matter to the Northumbria Police.
Despite warnings from the police and army seniors, Dhillon continued to stalk her and monitor her emails as her fledging relationship with Mike James, a serving British officer began to develop.
Dhillon sneaked into Ruggles' bedroom on the fateful night in October and waited for her to return from work. After a violent struggle, he brutally attacked her and left her to die in the shower. Ruggles' body was discovered by her flatmate Maxine McGill who called the emergency to come to the rescue.
Dhillon denies murder, saying that Ruggles harmed herself – and the vertict for the trial, that was supposed to have lasted three week is yet to be passed.
