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This is the moment a pub landlord is seen on the phone to police seconds before he was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by his former sister in law, a court has heard.
Stephanie Langley knocks the phone out of Matthew Bryant's hand before the pair disappear from view where Mr Bryant was stabbed twice in the back and once in the chest.
Later she is filmed in the back of a police car after her arrest, telling an officer: 'I took a knife and I killed him.'
Minutes earlier he had rung the police to say that she had threatened to kill him before leaving his pub but said she would return.
The line was still open when Mr Bryant, 52, was fatally wounded, and he was able to tell the emergency services operator: 'I have just been stabbed'.
Stephanie Langley is pictured arriving at Matthew Bryant's pub, the Hare and Hounds in Maidstone, where she threatened to kill him
Mr Bryant can be seen inside the pub on the phone to police after his former sister-in-law had threatened to kill him
Langley knocks a phone out of Mr Bryant's hand before the pair disappear from view and he is stabbed
Mr Bryant (pictured with his wife Caroline) was repeatedly stabbed outside the Hare and Hounds pub last September
Witnesses to the terrifying incident said Langley, a 54 year old mum, had shouted 'I told you I would stab you' while repeatedly knifing Mr Bryant, before later remarking 'I'm glad I did it and I don't mind going to jail' while paramedics desperately tried to save his life.
Now footage of the moments before and after the attack, which happened outside the Hare and Hounds in Maidstone at around 6pm on September 11 has been released.
In the video, Mr Bryant can be seen inside the pub on the phone to police. During this call, he tells the operator that his former sister-in-law had threatened to kill him.
CCTV then shows Mr Bryant outside the pub with Langley, and, still on the line with the police, he tries to hand the phone to her.
But she knocks the device out of his hand and when he goes to retrieve it off-camera, she allegedly stabbed him.
A witness described how Langley had lunged forward with the kitchen knife and stabbed Mr Bryant's right shoulder blade twice before shouting 'I told you I would stab you'.
Pub customer Eddie Williams said she then held the weapon over her head 'in a dagger motion' before plunging it 'with great force' into Mr Bryant's chest.
Maidstone Crown Court heard that this third wound proved fatal.
In a video taken inside a police car after the attack, which was also released Langley tells an officer: 'I will tell you exactly as it happened; I took a knife and I killed him.'
Despite previously being related by marriage, Mr Bryant's first contact with Langley in 21 years was when she had turned up at his pub in May 2023.
She did not know he was the landlord of the Hare and Hounds and he did not recognise her.
However, jurors heard that she later described the encounter as 'a massive shock' which left her 'almost uncontrollable'.
Langley's son Cameron Langley-McColm told Maidstone Crown Court that his mother had alleged that Mr Bryant was violent, abusive, and had committed rape.
He added that she became so angry during the encounter with Mr Bryant in May that he had to make her leave the pub.
However, she returned later, still drunk, and shouted that she was going to kill Mr Bryant, jurors heard.
Prosecutors explained that Langley had been going through various personal and financial difficulties at the time which had placed her under a great deal of stress.
Her mother was ill, her son had been involved in a serious road accident, she faced a hefty bill for repairs to her Volvo, and she was drinking more than usual.
Mr Bryant (pictured), 52, was the landlord of the Hare and Hounds pub in Maidstone
However, by the time she returned to Mr Bryant's pub in September, her former brother-in-law had become 'the focal point of her rage', prosecutor Nina Ellin KC said.
Earlier in the day on September 11, Langley's son told her he would be playing pool at Mr Bryant's pub.
She replied: 'Enjoy your pool with the w*****'. Later, she told him: 'I'll see you there. Crazy mum remember.'
CCTV then captured Langley arriving at the Hare and Hounds at 5.53pm and being served a drink by Mr Bryant who joined her at a table.
She was later seen trying to smash Mr Bryant's phone out of his hand while he was serving a customer - someone who Langley allegedly told: 'Get a drink while he is still alive.'
Just six minutes later, Mr Bryant's wife Caroline - who did not know Langley - asked her to leave and told her husband to phone the police.
