A FRENZIED killer who repeatedly stabbed his partner in the middle of the road before calmly lighting a cigarette has died in a North East prison.
Philip Stier was jailed in 2007 after brutally murdering mother-of-five Doreen Corbett.
He died in Durham’s Frankland Prison last Thursday aged 52.
On November 20 2007, knife-wielding Stier chased Ms Corbett out of their South Yorkshire flat before grabbing her by the hair and throwing her to the ground.
In what a judge described at the time as a “ferocious assault” and a “particularly public execution”, he then stabbed her in the stomach four times before jumping on her head.
Two witnesses restrained Stier, who was reported to have then casually lit a cigarette before remarking that Ms Corbett “deserved to die”.
Ms Corbett survived the attack but never regained consciousness and died in a coma five months later.
Stier was convicted of Ms Corbett’s murder in Sheffield Crown Court and sentenced to a minimum of 16 years and three months in prison.
The incident occurred on West Street in the South Yorkshire town of Wath at the height of morning rush-hour traffic.
An inquest into Stier’s death will open on Monday at the Durham and Darlington Coroner’s office in Crook.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “HMP Frankland prisoner Philip Stier died in hospital on Thursday February 25.
“As with all deaths in custody there will be an investigation by the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.”
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