 Ash-Smith had been jailed for life in December 1996 for knife attacks in 1988 and 1995 on two women.He had admitted stabbing the young women, and leaving them for dead, although both survived.While in Wakefield Prison, Ash-Smith told a fellow prisoner (Stefen Dubois, real name Molliere), about an attack on a zebra crossing and his “snapping” and stabbing her multiple times.