Manchester woman stabs common-law husband to death

Woodlands, Manchester:

Residents of Woodlands in south Manchester were left in shock yesterday morning when news broke that a popular man in the area had been killed by his girlfriend during a domestic dispute.

Dead is 38-year-old farmer Oneil Coleman.

According to the police, at approximately 7 a.m. on Thursday, Coleman and his girlfriend were having a dispute when Coleman used a machete to beat her.

The girlfriend, in retaliation, used a knife to stab him in the neck, killing him on the spot.

The police are reporting that both the deceased and the accused had made reports about each other in the past for varying reasons.

A friend of the deceased said that he was very hard working and would not ordinarily have been in a confrontation with anyone.

"He was a hard-working farmer. Him never make trouble wid anybody. The most you hear from him is when him drunk and him start run him jokes."

The friend, who did not want to be identified, said he knew of instances where Coleman was being abused and kept it silent.

"The woman always a beat up on him, but him just never talk, and now him cyan talk because him dead," he said.

The accused is currently in police custody.