An ambulance worker who subjected her boss to a ‘frenzied’ hammer attack has been found guilty of attempted murder. Stacey Smith turned up outside Michala Morton’s home early in the morning armed with the weapon.
She hit her on the head, arms, legs and torso during the horror incident, Manchester Crown Court heard. Smith, 46, had built up an increasing resentment and hatred for Morton, her manager at the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS).
She blamed Ms Morton after she had been unable to secure changes to shift patterns which she and her wife, also an ambulance worker, had sought. READ MORE: Man, 45, dies after being struck by car as he was 'laying in the road' with woman arrested Smith was lying in wait for Ms Morton one morning as she left her home for work.
Ms Morton was hit to the head as Smith ‘screamed that she was going to kill her’. She suffered a fractured wrist while being hit as she raised her arm to protect herself.