Woman stabs lover to save her own life
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A woman convicted of fatally stabbing her Swedish-born boyfriend with a 14-centimeter stiletto heel has told jurors that she killed him to save her own life during a lengthy fight in which she was chased down, knocked into a wall and thrown over a couch.
Ana Trujillo, born in Mexico, took the witness stand for the first time on Thursday in the two-week trial as part of the penalty phase, which will decide her sentence. During about seven hours of rambling testimony, Trujillo said she had been repeatedly abused by men and sexually assaulted.
The jury convicted Trujillo on Tuesday of murder in last June’s killing of her boyfriend, 59-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson, at his home after the couple had gone out drinking. Prosecutors say she pinned him down and stabbed him at least 25 times with the heel of her shoe. Trujillo and her lawyers said she acted in self-defense.
Jurors were expected to begin deciding her sentence after closing arguments yesterday.
Trujillo told jurors that Andersson became enraged when he thought she was going to leave him and she fought for her life during a fight that lasted more than an hour. Trujillo said there were pauses during the fight in which she would try to calm him down, but at the end Andersson started yelling at her. She said Andersson was a heavy drinker.
“I did fear for my life. I felt he lost it,” she said.
She said she started striking him with the shoe anywhere she could.
“Why did you keep on hitting him?” her attorney Jack Carroll asked.
“He wouldn’t let go of my leg. The pain wouldn’t stop,” she said.
Trujillo said that at first she hit him on his back and on his arms, then on his head as a last resort.
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