Jilted lover 'knifed girlfriend'

Margarite Van Campenhout was stabbed

Jilted lover Vaso Aliu stabbed his ex-girlfriend and attacked two men at a Tube station, a court was told.

Mr Aliu, 29, of Finchley Road, north London, had decided that if he could not have Dutch-born Margarite Van Campenhout then no-one else could, a jury at the Old Bailey was told.

He is alleged to have launched the attack at Euston Underground station on 11 January after confronting the 24-year-old woman.

As well as stabbing Miss Van Campenhout, Mr Aliu allegedly slashed the arm of her work colleague Christopher Kiely and stabbed a Tube passenger who intervened when he saw what was going on.

'Pestered her'

Timothy Langdale QC, prosecuting, said after Miss Van Campenhout ended their two year relationship because of his behaviour, Mr Aliu started harassing her.

She moved out of their shared flat in Finchley Road.

He said: "The defendant could not accept this and made frequent attempts for her to go back and started to pester and threaten her so much so that she went to the police and they spoke to him and warned him."

A colleague accompanied her to and from work but "efforts to avoid the defendant's attentions failed".

On the day she died, Miss Van Campenhout left work with a colleague and went to the station to catch a Tube.

Mr Aliu caught up with them on the platform of the Northern Line.

"This defendant, unable to accept she wanted no more to do with him and selfishly thinking if he could not have her no-one else would, decided if she would not go back with him he would kill her at that Underground station," Mr Langdale said.

The court was told that after Mr Aliu found his escape barred, he stabbed himself.

Mr Aliu denies murdering Miss Van Campenhout from Tooting, south London. He also denies attempting to murder Mr Kiely and wounding another man.

The trial continues.