A violent boyfriend high on a cocktail of alcohol, cocaine and cannabis, stabbed his mistress to death after she found his £1,500 gambling winnings and threatened to spend it on their love child.

Andre Bright, 30, stabbed Victoria Adams, 22, in the chest and in the stomach in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on December 8 last year, leaving her with a wound so deep it reached her kidney.

As police arrived to arrest Bright they found him watching Miss Adams bleed to death on her hallway carpet while she begged for her baby daughter, who was asleep upstairs.

When he refused to go with police an officer shot him with a 50,000 volt Taser. He didn’t move, and after the officer threatened to shoot him again he sneered: ‘I enjoyed that. You need more volts.’

Today Bright was jailed for 17 years after being found guilty of murder and assault at Manchester Crown Court.

He shrugged as the unanimous verdict was read out, while friends and relatives of the victim wept, screamed and cheered in the public gallery.

Bright had a long history of violence stretching back to when he was just 14. He was arrested after he shot a man in the face with a BB gun, causing him to loose the sight in one of his eyes.

He was also convicted of stabbing two men in a bar fight, leaving one with a perforated bowel, and of beating up a previous girlfriend while she was pregnant when she accused him of cheating.

Police arrested him three months before the attack outside a nightclub with scissors in his pocket.

Just hours before killing Miss Adams he was caught on CCTV trying to urinate on a bouncer, and when the man pushed him away he stabbed him repeatedly in the face with an Afro pick.

Bright often bragged to friends that, on the estate where he lived, it was cool to carry a knife.

Bright married in 2009 and had three children with his wife, but kept a string of secret girlfriends in tow, and had at least one other child with Miss Adams.

She was a travel and tourism graduate who first met Bright when she was just 16, and the pair began a stormy six-year on-off relationship.

The court heard that Bright never went out with Miss Adams as a couple, and instead used her flat as a place to crash whenever he was drunk or high on drugs.

Mr Mark Kellet, prosecuting, said that Miss Adams found out she was pregnant with his child after taking a pregnancy test in January 2013, and sent him a text with the good news.

But Bright was furious, telling her to delete his number and to never call him again.

Three days before she was killed, on December 5, Miss Adams had a fight with Bright after she went out with friends for the first time since having her baby in August.

Bright stormed to her house, and began calling his other girlfriends in front of her. When she told him to stop he spat on her, told her he would sleep with her friends, then threw a bottle at her.

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A man on trial accused of murdering the mother of his child while high on cocaine allegedly told police their taser was not strong enough after being shot with a stun gun.

Victoria Adams, 22, is said to have twice fled her home at Springwood Hall Road, Oldham, in fear of Andre Bright in the build-up to her death on the morning of December 8, 2013.

Manchester Crown Court heard he admits stabbing her at her home, but says he ‘acted unconsciously’ and did not intend to harm her.

Prosecutor Mark Kellet alleges that Bright, 30, who had been an on-off relationship with Miss Adams since she was 16 and he was 23, was drunk and high on cocaine at the time of the killing, but ‘knew what he was doing’ and intended to kill or cause serious harm.

There was sobbing in the public gallery as the court heard that on the morning of December 8, Bright rang emergency services and said: “Can I have an ambulance please – someone is dying in front of me’.

Miss Adams was found bleeding heavily from the chest from two stab wounds. A paramedic tried to question her, ‘but she kept asking where her baby was’, the court heard.

Mr Bright – the father of Miss Adams’ daughter Aminah – was staring ‘vacantly’ when police arrived and was tasered when he refused to take his hands from his pockets.

It’s alleged he said: “I enjoyed that – you need more volts in your taser”, before smiling at a female police officer in an alleged attempt to ‘intimidate’.

The court heard Miss Adams met Mr Bright in 2007. It’s alleged he was in a relationship with another woman at the time.

In early 2013 she told him she was pregnant and Bright cut off contact with her, but after the baby was born in August she made contact with his mother and sister and their relationship began again.

It is alleged that on December 6 Miss Adams fled her home saying he had assaulted her and spat in her face and she feared he was ‘going to kill her’.

She later returned to the property and took £1,500 he had left there ‘for her daughter’.

The next day, Bright is alleged to have ‘stabbed’ a doorman in the face with an afro comb after being refused entry to a bar.

He is then said to have gone to Miss Adams’ home, before ‘frightening’ her into leaving with the baby. Hours later she was stabbed.

Bright, of Falmouth Street, Oldham, denies murder and assault causing actual bodily harm.

Andre Bright, 29, appeared at Oldham Magistrates Court this morning charged with the murder of mum-of-one Victoria at her home on Springwood Hall Road, Hathershaw, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Dressed in a grey tracksuit and white T-shirt, Bright showed no emotion as he spoke only to confirm his details in a two-minute hearing.

Bright, of Falmouth Street, Oldham, is understood to be the father of Victoria’s four-month-old daughter.

The baby girl was lying just feet away when her mum was stabbed repeatedly in the chest at their semi-detached home.

Bright is also accused of assaulting Matthew Wilkinson, a member of staff at 101 nightclub in Oldham, in a separate incident earlier the same morning.

The families of both Victoria and the defendant watched on from the public gallery with two police officers stood between them for the duration of the hearing.

Two security guards and another police officer flanked Bright in the dock.

The defendant stood motionless with his hands in his pockets and was barely audible when he spoke to confirm his name, date of birth and address.

The case was sent to Manchester Crown Court for a plea and case management hearing on Friday.

There was no application for bail and Bright will remain in custody.