Wheeling around and sprinting away, this is the heartstopping moment a young mum tried – but ultimately failed – to evade the controlling and abusive ex-boyfriend who had threatened to kill her.
Courtney Mitchell was out with two friends when they spotted small-time drug dealer Logan Burnett, 27, marching purposefully towards them.
CCTV shows the terrified trio, who were crossing a bridge together, break into a run in the opposite direction as Logan, dressed in black, takes up the chase.
Shortly afterwards, he caught up with Miss Mitchell, 26, and pushed her up against a hedge before punching her and then repeatedly plunging a long knife into her. One of the blows was so powerful it bent the knife.
Traumatised mother-of-three Miss Mitchell – who witnesses said staggered away wailing ‘Am I going to die?’ – was taken to hospital where she passed away.
Further footage that has been released shows Burnett swaggering through Ipswich on the way to the fatal confrontation and again, after the attack, when he is seen hunched over as he runs past a skatepark to avoid being seen.
He has now been convicted of murder and jailed for life, with a minimum 24-year term, after a jury heard how Miss Mitchell had dumped him a month earlier and started seeing another man.
She had moved away from Ipswich in Suffolk to Colchester in Essex in an attempt to make a fresh start but was back in her home town on August 6 last year when jealous Burnett spotted her on the Sir Bobby Robson Bridge over the River Orwell.
Police bodycam footage shows the ‘obsessive’ killer being arrested at an Ipswich address the following day.
Emerging from a property in red underwear, officers can be heard yelling ‘come out of the door… lay [sic] on the ground’ before they handcuff him.
Ipswich Crown Court heard how he sneered ‘what, so she died, yeah?’ as he was led away.
He later smirked at the camera as his mugshot was taken at a nearby police station where the thug, who had 24 previous convictions for 52 offences including assault, harassment, breaching restraining orders and criminal damage, moaned about the process taking too long, saying: ‘I would rather admit it and go straight back to prison.’
Sentencing Burnett at Ipswich Crown Court on Monday, Judge Martyn Levett described the murder as a ‘personal execution’, adding the defendant had ‘hunted her down as if she was your quarry’.
Burnett was on police bail at the time of the attack as he had gone to Miss Mitchell’s new home and torn radiators off the walls, causing extensive water damage. In a Snapchat message to her sister, he said it was because she had ‘cheated on him and violated him’.
On the night before the murder, he sent his former partner a chilling message warning he was going to stab her and her boyfriend and then ‘kill her whole family’. He also boasted to a friend that he would be ‘famous’ after the murder.
But friends said brutal Burnett had hit Miss Mitchell ‘in public and private’ even before their on-off relationship ended, leaving her with bruises on her ‘breasts, ribs and all over her body’.
The three-week trial heard he regularly used cannabis and cocaine and had also taken heroin and crack, as well as ‘being involved in the selling of drugs’.
He had stopped taking prescription medicine for ADHD in the months before the attack and used synthetic drug Spice the day before the killing.
In a victim impact statement she read to the court, Miss Mitchell’s devastated mother, Samantha, said her daughter would still be alive if the authorities had taken the threat he posed more seriously.
‘If they had done their job correctly I believe my little girl would be alive today. But they didn’t. They let her down,’ she said.
The ‘big-hearted’ victim’s father, William Hutchinson, added he had been left with a ‘massive void’ in his life.
‘This person not only took my daughter’s life but they also robbed her children of their mummy and made them orphans,’ he said.
Detective Superintendent Nicola Wallace, of Suffolk Police, said: ‘Suffolk police are committed to tackle domestic violence in all forms across our communities, with the aim of trying to prevent such horrific attacks and the impact on victims and families in future.’