Reacting to the news of Lloyd Brian Twells’ death, his ex Lynn Carrington, 60, said she feels cheated “nobody’s paying at the end” for the horror stabbing
00:33, 27 Apr 2026Updated 00:51, 27 Apr 2026
A mum who nearly died after being stabbed by her ex-partner feels “cheated” after he died before he could be jailed.
Lynn Carrington, 60, was knifed by Lloyd Brian Twells as he chased her through her home last June. The mum-of-six lost 2.7 litres of blood and spent 14 hours in surgery as medics battled to save her life following the vicious attack.
Twells, 67, was convicted of attempted murder at Nottingham Crown Court in December. He has died, though, of bladder cancer while in custody – one a week before he was due to be sentenced.
Still haunted by his actions, Lynn feels “cheated” by his premature death. She said: “I feel like I’ve gone through a nightmare and nobody’s paying at the end for what they did to me. I feel cheated. I’ve got no ending in my head. I know he’s died but he was dying of cancer anyway. It’s not fair. I feel betrayed. My head’s a mess.”
Lynn, from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, added: “He’s got away with it. He died in hospital, not in prison. I thought I’d get closure but it’s all up in the air now. I was very upset when the police told me he had died. My mental health has now suffered. I get flashbacks all the time. I get very tearful. I don’t like being on my own anymore.”
Lynn, who does not work due to disability, admits she thought she was going to die when Twells chased her with a blade on June 27 last year. She says he stabbed her in the neck when she tried to hug him and pursued her through the house shouting “die *****, you’ve got to go”.
He repeatedly tried to stab her in the neck again but she stopped him by grabbing the blade, slicing her own hand in the process. Lynn, who is a mum of six, said: “He was looking at me and his face looked so loving and kind, so I walked into him and put my arms around his waist.
“He had a knife in the other hand and stuck it in my neck. I took a step back. He grabbed my hair and tried to stab me again. We ended up in the corner of the room. He kept trying to stab me and then I grabbed the blade. I sliced my other hand with it. He was saying to me all the time ‘you’ve got to go’. At this point I just started screaming. I never knew I could scream that loud in my life.”
Twells repeatedly threatened to kill Lynn’s dog while she tried desperately to get him to calm down. When Twells finally backed off Lynn, he stabbed himself in the arm.
She explained: “After what seemed like a lifetime, he just walked away and stood in the middle of the room. He put his arm out and sliced up the arm.”
After Twells calmed down and gave the knife up to Lynn, she went to the kitchen and placed it on the draining board. But while she tried to call her daughter Kayleigh for help, he grabbed the blade back and attacked her again – forcing her to seize the knife from him and get it stuck in her hand. Lynn continued: “When I was in the corner fighting for my life I thought ‘I’m going to die here’.”
Kayleigh, 30, was shocked when she returned home to find blood seeping from her mum’s neck. The pair waited in the garden of a neighbour, terrified to go back inside and face Twells. Lynn pulled the knife out of her own hand while she waited for paramedics to arrive.
“If it wasn’t for Kayleigh, I wouldn’t be here now”, Lynn said.
The mum was rushed to Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, where she had to undergo emergency surgery after doctors accidentally dislodged a blood clot while trying to pump her up with blood.
“I was saying goodbye to my family when they were running me down to theatre”, Lynn said.
Medics later said she would have died had she lost another 300 millilitres of blood that day. She still has no feeling in her thumb and a 1.5-inch cut on her other hand while the wound in her neck has healed. She will need to have yearly thyroid checks.
Twells said in court that while suicidal, he was told by a seemingly imaginary woman named Jenny that he could not take his own life without taking Lynn with him.