The raging MMA-loving thug who used his girlfriend as a punchbag before murdering her
Even as he was questioned by police after knifing Elinor O'Brien, a stabbing which would eventually kill her, Kevin Mannion's attitude towards a woman he claimed to love was clear. Mannion, a 45-year-old cocaine fuelled thug, constantly referred to Elinor as 'the girl', or 'that girl'.
She used a false name at hospital, and was petrified at the thought of being seen with police and labelled a 'grass'. She also made up stories to cover for Mannion's violent rages. He inflicted injury after injury on a vulnerable young woman, before eventually killing her. Now after being found guilty of murdering Elinor, faces a life sentence. He will learn how long he will have to serve in prison at a hearing next week.
Around Christmas time that year, her family remembered hearing that she had a 'new fella' who she called 'Manny'. Kevin Mannion, from Salford, was a violent father-of-five, a man previously before the courts after becoming involved in a fight with two doormen at a bar, as well as a New Year's Eve brawl over a 'domestic matter'.
He continued to string her along, seeing at least one other woman behind her back. Mannion lived in the Great Northern Tower apartment block, one of Manchester's most sought after luxury developments, in the heart of the bustling city centre. "Currently having a sat-by-the-door cig, scary neighbour is being a nightmare this weekend," she wrote. "Last night he was screaming threatening to glass his girlfriend, when I woke up he was screaming the loudest I’ve ever heard on the phone to her calling her a stupid b****, and now she’s round and they’re on the balcony and he’s loudly telling her how horrible she is."
He admitted that he was responsible for the black eye but maintained he'd only slapped her once to 'calm her down', after she'd turned up to his flat drunk in the early hours. The following month, in March last year, she told her doctor that she'd been 'subject to domestic abuse by her boyfriend', and was worried that her ex was due to be released from prison.
Again, he maintained he'd only slapped her to 'calm her down' because she was 'hysterical'. He raged after claiming Elinor had lied to him about when she'd returned home, after attending a baby shower with friends. It was around this time that the authorities became aware of her black eye. Firefighters had been called to her flat in Salford, where she lived with her two small French bulldogs, after reports of flooding following an electrical fault in a washing machine.
"I was really upset at the state she was in," Mr Ryder recalled. "I felt like seeking help wasn't an option for her." Officers left, but the following day Elinor called police. She told them she'd been the victim of domestic violence by a man called Paul Traynor. Asked further about the man, Elinor told police that he would pay for 'everything' because she didn't have any money, and he 'wouldn't let her get a job'.
But the uneasy truce was soon over. Mannion revealed that a woman he'd been seeing at the same time as Elinor, had disclosed she was pregnant. After 7am, she took an Uber to the refuge in Wythenshawe, texting Mannion to let her know she'd got back safely and that she ‘loves him so much’. Mannion did not respond.
The pair rowed after Elinor dared to ask Mannion if he was seeing other women, when he failed to respond to a number of texts from her telling him 'I need you', sent during her visit to A&E."Please come," he pleaded, repeatedly heard saying Elinor's name. "There’s blood everywhere. She’s been punctured in the groin. Please come.
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