Ex-Royal Mail worker 'stabbed estranged partner to death over threat to sell home'

Stabbed to death: Tracy Goodwin
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A retired Royal Mail engineer stabbed to death his estranged partner after she threatened to sell their family home, a court heard.

Ron Bacon, 64, lay in wait for 56-year-old legal sectary Tracy Goodwin before knifing her 13 times after she arrived home from work, it is said.

Afterwards, he dialled 999 and said: “I lost it, I stabbed her, I couldn’t help it,” Snaresbrook crown court heard.

The couple, who had two children and two grandchildren together, shared a home in Kidbrooke, south London,for 36 years, but had been living separate lives since 1998.

Bacon allegedly murdered Ms Goodwin, who worked for international law firm White & Case, when she threatened to force through the sale of their home.

Prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC said Bacon retired from the Royal Mail 22 years earlier for health reasons and his incapacity benefit payments had recently stopped.

He lived in the constant fear of losing his home and had threatened to shoot himself, she told jurors.

“The evidence suggests the defendant was lying in wait for Tracy Goodwin’s return from work that night”, said Ms Johnson.

“He stabbed her repeatedly as soon as she entered the house.

“The killing happened as Ron Bacon was enraged because he was in imminent danger of losing his home.

“It was approaching critical point, he was in an impossible position.

“He did not want to move but could not afford to stay without Ms Goodwin.

“He could ignore it no more.”

Neighbours heard screaming just after 1am on February 24 last year, and when police arrived they found a bloodied Bacon crouched in the hallway next to Ms Goodwin’s lifeless body.

Ms Johnson said the victim had defence injuries showing she had tried to resist the attack.

Bacon denies murder and the trial continues.

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