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A paramedic accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend at a hospital will make his first appearance in Crown Court today.
Jonathan Vass, 30, will appear at Preston Crown Court after being formally charged before magistrates yesterday with the murder of nurse Jane Clough.
Miss Clough, 26, the mother of his child, had just finished her shift in the Accident and Emergency unit at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and was walking to her vehicle in the staff car park at around 8.30pm on Sunday night when she was stabbed by an attacker who then left the scene on a bicycle.
The mother-of-one, from Barrowford, near Nelson, Lancashire, was rushed to the A&E unit where she worked, just 100 yards away.
Her colleagues battled to save her but she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
A post-mortem examination showed she died of multiple stab wounds.
Vass, of Conway Drive in Preston, Lancs, worked as a paramedic at the same hospital until recently.
He made a brief appearance yesterday at Blackpool Magistrates' Court where he was remanded into custody to appear at Preston Crown Court today.
