'Obsessed' German worker murdered British student

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David Heiss, 21, stabbed Matthew Pyke 86 times in a brutal attack after becoming infatuated with Joanna Witton.

He forced his way in to the Nottingham flat Mr Pyke shared with his 21-year-old girlfriend and stabbed him as he lay cowering in the corner.

In his last moments Mr Pyke, 20, had written DAV, the first three letters of Heiss's Christian name, in his own blood on the side of his computer to alert police to his killer's identity.

But the computer sciences student, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, did not survive the attack on September 19 last year, which was described by prosecutors at Nottingham Crown Court as "savage and sustained".

Heiss became obsessed with Miss Witton after meeting her through the war gaming website she ran with her boyfriend from their flat above the Orange Tree pub in North Sherwood Street in Nottingham city centre.