'He's killing me', victim told police

For four minutes helpless police listened to a "frenzied and savage" murder taking place, a court heard today.

The victim, translator Lise Marie Weisberger, 39, dialled 999 as she heard her crazed former lover breaking in to her flat through the skylight, the Old Bailey was told.

Sallie Bennett-Jenkins, prosecuting, described the shocking transcript of what was heard over the phone as Miss Weisberger was slashed and stabbed 75 times.

The victim, 39, was heard pleading for her life as Kenneth McDonald, 50, attacked her with three knives screaming: "You'll die."

Finally she let out a gasp of "He's killing me" as McDonald of Langdale Avenue, Mitcham, slit her throat twice at the flat in Samuel Lewis Gardens, Camberwell.

Jailing designer McDonald, who admitted murder, for life, Judge Neil Denison told him: "This was a ferocious killing."

The court heard that because of his violence Miss Weisberger obtained a court injunction banning him from molesting her. But on 26 September, after taking drugs, he smashed his way in to her home "intending to kill her". When police broke into the house, Miss Weisberger was dead and McDonald gave himself up.