Online Reporter
LONDON. − On a quiet spring evening, a sleepy suburban close in Worcester suddenly became swamped with blue lights and sirens.
Police rushed to the house, and Damian Homer opened the door − blood stains down his shirt.
Inside, two women − his girlfriend, Stacey Hill, and her brave mother, Wendy Francis − lay on the floor in total agony, both stabbed but alive.
Chillingly, Homer had repeatedly hacked at the pair in a deranged rampage, even pausing to ask Stacey for a kiss as she lay bleeding out, forced to listen to the “noise the knife made in my mum”.
Hero mum Wendy had rushed to the property to save her daughter, who realised her life was in danger after spotting the knife in Homer’s pocket in a reflection from their wardrobe mirror.
As officers forced the brute against the wall and arrested him for attempted murder, he shouted out in desperation.
“Stacey went to stab me, then Wendy came in and they both tried to stab me,” he pleaded.
“I had to protect myself… it’s a good job I did otherwise I’d be the one dead.”
Inside, medics treated Stacey, surrounded by a pool of blood, as she pleaded with them to check on her mum and kids.
Police located the two young children and took them outside.
“Keep our eyes tight, tight, tight,” they were told as they were carried past the injured bodies of their mum and grandma.
Stacey, 38, was whisked off to hospital. But her mother, 61-year-old Wendy, went into cardiac arrest. CPR was unsuccessful − and she was declared dead.
Now Homer was under arrest for murder.
But with Stacey under critical care, both children terrified, and the only other witness dead, police faced an uphill battle to unravel the truth, as revealed in new BBC Two docuseries Murder 24/7.
The morning after his arrest, police questioned Homer properly for the first time, and he gave his side of the story.
“I absolutely love that woman”, he said, breathing heavily and breaking down as he asked if his partner Stacey is okay.
“We started having a drink − I was watching the football, she was in the front room,” he added.
“Then we was arguing in the kitchen, she was saying ‘Get out the house’ − there were some knives in the block, and she lent over the grab one.”
Homer then claimed he snatched it off her and put it in his back pocket, before his mother-in-law Wendy burst through the front door and dived on top of him.
“I’ve got the knife in my back pocket, and I’ve pulled it out because I thought it was going to go into my leg,” he continued.
“We fell over and the knife went into her. Stacey was shouting, and she went to grab another knife…and came towards me.
“I launched at her. And she just froze on the spot.”
Damien didn’t realise it at the time, but his shameless story gave the police some crucial information.
He claimed Stacey had a second knife – but when detectives searched the house, no second knife was found.
But with Stacey still in hospital unable to speak, the investigators were forced to turn elsewhere for clues. Detectives spoke to the children, now under the care of relatives − and what they revealed made investigators doubt Homer’s version of events even further.
Their social worker reported that they’d been playing with dolls, pretending they were their family. − The Sun
