29-year-old woman looked like a “crazy animal” when she “attacked 65-year-old sugar daddy with a bottle and then stabbed him with a knife”

A woman looked like a “crazy animal” when she attacked her sugar daddy with a bottle and then stabbed him, a court heard.

Lauren Harris, 29, attacked 65-year-old Mark Wilcox in his home in Wales and began to hit and kick him, it is said.

Jurors were told her pupils were “huge” when she grabbed a vodka bottle and hit her older lover on the head with it.

Harris is said to have then stabbed the grandfather and left him to die in a Swimming pool Blood in his chair.

Mold Crown Court was told that last November, Harris invited her friends David Webster and Thomas Whiteley to Mark’s home for a night of “drinking and drug-taking”.

Webster today described the moment Harris looked like a “mad animal” as she attacked Mark.

He said: “The look in her eyes – her pupils were huge, it was just the speed at which she did it.”

The defendant, who, like Harris and Whiteley, denies the murder charge, claimed he tried to grab the vodka bottle, but Harris was still “angry, kicking and screaming”.

He told the court that she then stabbed Mark “without any warning” while he and Whiteley tried to dissuade her.

Webster added: “I tried to tell her to calm down, but she wouldn’t calm down. She said, ‘I’m going to stab you too.'”

The court heard that the trio stole Mark’s Volvo but crashed it less than a minute after leaving the scene of the horror.

An autopsy revealed that Mark had suffered two stab wounds to the chest and sustained “significant blows to the head.”

He also had injuries that suggested he had been hit with a solid object – “such as a blood-stained vodka bottle.”

In a video of her police interview, which was played in court, Harris can be seen denying any involvement in the fatal stabbing.

She said, “I’m here because of what they did. It wasn’t me.”

Harris also claimed that “nobody did anything wrong” when she was arrested on suspicion of murder.

She added: “Why am I getting caught for this? It doesn’t make sense to me. I did shit anyway.”

Jurors were told that Harris had previous convictions for assault, including in 2022 for intentionally causing bodily harm with a knife against a partner.

She allegedly started a relationship with Mark because he wanted to “take care of her in his retirement.”

But Harris took advantage of the father of two, who repeatedly lent money to his younger lover Money and invited her to stay at his house.

Prosecutor Andrew ford KC said: “Mr Wilcox was a gregarious, generous man whose generosity spilled over to those he met, sometimes strangers.”

The court was told that Mark’s sons were so concerned about the relationship that they set up a WhatsApp group called ‘Dad Brigade’ to keep an eye on him.

By the time of his death, more than £12,000 had been withdrawn from his bank account between June and November 2023.

The court was told that Mark had worked for the Ministry of Defence and the BBC before retiring at the age of 65.

Harris, Webster, 43, and Whiteley, 33, all deny murder.

The process continues.