Murder victim’s partner says ‘I hope he’s never released’ as killer is jailed for 28 years after stabbing neighbour to death in row over dead man’s son revving his motorbike

• Jamie Crosbie, 48, used two knives and a saw to kill father-of-three Dean Allsop 
• Crosbie stabbed Mr Allsop 17 times in street in Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich
• Two women who tried to help Mr Allsop were also attacked by Crosbie 

A murder victim’s partner has said they hope the killer is never released after he was jailed for 28 years for stabbing his neighbour to death.

Jamie Crosbie, 48, used two knives and a saw to kill father-of-three Dean Allsop, stabbing him 17 times in their street in Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich after hearing engine noise from Mr Allsop’s son’s motorbike.

Two women who tried to help 41-year-old Mr Allsop – his partner Louise Newell and their friend and neighbour Kerryn Kray, formerly Kerryn Johnson – were also attacked by Crosbie. 

Mr Allsop, of Primrose Crescent in Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8.18pm on April 14 last year.

His partner Ms Newell said in a victim impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Andrew Jackson: ‘I will never forgive Crosbie for what he did to my family.’

She added: ‘I hope he’s never released.’

Jamie Crosbie (pictured after telling police ‘killing people isn’t always a bad thing’), 48, used two knives and a saw to kill father-of-three Dean Allsop, stabbing him 17 times in their street in Thorpe St Andrew near Norwich after hearing engine noise from Mr Allsop’s son’s motorbike

Judge Anthony Bate, sentencing at Norwich Crown Court, told Crosbie: ‘I regard you as a very dangerous man.’

He sentenced Crosbie to life in prison with a minimum term of 28 years, which is the amount of time he must serve behind bars before he can be considered for release.

The balding defendant stared straight ahead throughout Wednesday’s sentence hearing, bouncing his left knee up and down, and he showed no reaction as he was led to the cells.

Crosbie was found guilty of murdering Mr Allsop following an earlier 12-day trial.

He was also convicted of the wounding with intent of Ms Newell and Ms Kray, and he admitted three counts of possessing an offensive weapon.

Mr Jackson said that Crosbie had previously been convicted of causing actual bodily harm in 2013.

Crosbie was also found guilty of the wounding with intent of two women, Mr Allsop’s partner Louise Newell (pictured) and friend and neighbour Kerryn Johnson, who had come out to help 

On this occasion Crosbie punched a security guard at a Job Centre where he had gone to complain about his benefits entitlement and was asked to leave, Mr Jackson said.

Crosbie was convicted in 2018 of criminal damage and possessing a knife over an incident when he threatened Mr Allsop with a knife and hammer after Mr Allsop put some rubbish in his wheelie bin, Mr Jackson said.

The barrister said Crosbie had made threats, to his supervising probation officer, to kill Mr Allsop while he was serving a suspended sentence for the 2018 offences.

Mr Jackson said there ‘can be no dispute’ that at the time of the murder Crosbie was ‘suffering from a mental disability’, which was described by a psychiatrist as a ‘delusional disorder’.

He said it did ‘not extinguish’ the defendant’s culpability.

Police previously released dramatic bodycam footage of his arrest, which showed his reaction to being told that his victim was dead and he was facing a murder charge.  

He said: ‘That makes me happy, that’s a good thing, that’s the best news I ever heard.’

The video also shows Crosbie with lots of blood on his hands and a head wound as officers ask him to kneel on the floor. 

Two women who tried to help 41-year-old Mr Allsop (right) – his partner Louise Newell and their friend and neighbour Kerryn Kray, formerly Kerryn Johnson – were also attacked by Crosbie (left)

The defendant was found guilty of murdering father-of-three Mr Allsop (above) in Thorpe St Andrew, near Norwich, following a three-week trial, Norfolk Police said

Senior investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Phill Gray, from the Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation Team, said: ‘This was a cold-blooded attack by a man intent on causing extreme harm to others.

‘Dean suffered 17 stab wounds to his body, some of which were inflicted when he was lying face-down and motionless.

‘Crosbie’s savage attack didn’t stop there; he stabbed two people who had come to help Dean, one suffering an arterial bleed to her neck.

‘Crosbie is an extremely violent man who has no place in society, and we welcome the jury’s verdict today.’

Crosbie was cleared of two counts of attempted murder. He is due to be sentenced at a later date

Senior investigating officer Detective Chief Inspector Phill Gray said the incident had ‘striking similarities’ to a previous incident in 2018 where Crosbie threatened Mr Allsop with a knife and hammer

Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, previously said that Mr Allsop and his son Mikey were ‘keen motorcyclists’ and ‘occasionally they would tinker with their motorcycles at home’. 

‘The sound of a motorcycle engine in a residential area can occasionally, like many other things, cause some annoyance to other residents and such minor issues between neighbours can be resolved amicably with some give and take on both sides,’ Mr Jackson said.

‘The prosecution case is that on that day the defendant allowed himself to become annoyed by the noise of the motorcycle engines and he was not prepared to deal in any amicable way at all with that issue.’

Mr Jackson said Crosbie stabbed Mr Allsop to death then ‘when Mr Allsop’s partner Louise Newell and their friend and neighbour Kerryn Johnson tried to prevent their neighbour from killing Mr Allsop, the defendant attempted to murder those two women by stabbing them as well’.

He said that Ms Newell sustained injuries to her forehead, cheek and chest, and Ms Johnson to her arm and neck.

He said: ‘This was a cold-blooded attack by a man intent on causing extreme harm to others’

Mr Jackson said that on the day in question the engine of Mikey Allsop’s motorbike ‘didn’t sound very good at all’, so Mr Allsop asked friend Aaron Barkshire, a motorcycle mechanic who also lived in the road at the time, to listen to it.

Mr Barkshire listened to the engine of Mikey’s bike by some garages and the engine was running for ‘no more than a couple of minutes then it was switched off’, Mr Jackson said.

‘But that was enough to attract the attention of the defendant.’

He said Crosbie ‘stuck up his middle finger’ at the three men, from a window in his house, swore at them and said he ‘couldn’t hear his television’.

Mr Jackson said Crosbie swore again and told Mr Allsop ‘come and get me’, to which Mr Allsop did not react but instead began to dial 999.

The prosecutor said Crosbie then came out of his house holding a saw in one hand and a kitchen knife in the other.

‘He then began to chase Mr Allsop,’ said Mr Jackson.

‘At some point Mr Allsop took off and threw his crash helmet at the defendant.’

He said Mikey ran home and returned with a knife to try to ‘protect his father’, and that by the time Mikey returned Mr Allsop had been stabbed.

Mr Allsop, of Primrose Crescent in Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8.18pm on April 14 last year (pictured here with one of his three children)

Mr Jackson said Crosbie stabbed Mr Allsop (pictured here with one of his three children) to death then ‘when Mr Allsop’s partner Louise Newell and their friend and neighbour Kerryn Johnson tried to prevent their neighbour from killing Mr Allsop, the defendant attempted to murder those two women by stabbing them as well’

Mr Jackson said Mikey heard his father say ‘he’s killed me’, Mikey ‘began to cry’ and he hit the defendant with the knife. Mikey then ran home to get his mother Ms Newell.

Crosbie broke the saw during the attack on Mr Allsop, Mr Jackson said, and went home to get a second knife.

When Ms Newell arrived, Crosbie was not there and she saw her partner on the floor, before Crosbie returned and stabbed Mr Allsop again, in his neck and upper back, Mr Jackson said.

He then lunged at Ms Newell and Ms Johnson when she came to help her neighbour, before Crosbie walked back to his house.

Mr Jackson said that Crosbie had threatened Mr Allsop with a knife in June 2018, almost three years before the fatal attack, after Mr Allsop put some rubbish in his wheelie bin.

‘It seems the bins were about to be collected,’ the prosecutor said.

‘Mr Allsop’s bin was full so he put some rubbish into his neighbour’s bin.

‘That caused the defendant to threaten him with a knife and a saw.

‘The defendant then chased Mr Allsop down the road.’

Mr Jackson said Crosbie also threw a hammer at Mr Allsop’s house, but it missed and went through a neighbour’s bedroom window.

‘He allowed himself to become angry over a relatively trivial matter,’ the barrister said.

Crosbie was brought to court in 2019 and was convicted of possessing a knife and criminal damage over the 2018 incident, but the neighbours continued to live in the street.

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