Law Graduate Appears At Old Bailey Charged With Murdering Fiancé

Sam Mayo & Blaze Wallace

A law graduate, with ambitions to be a human rights lawyer, appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with murdering her fiancé, who was stabbed to death.

Blaze Wallace, 27, of Mullins Path, Mortlake was not asked to enter a plea and was remanded in custody to HMP Bronzefield until October 11 by Judge Alexia Durran.

Wearing a grey sweatshirt and wiping away tears with a white handkerchief, a visibly distressed Wallace confirmed her age and date of birth at the start of the twenty-minute hearing.

She graduated from St. Mary’s University, Twickenham with a law degree in 2017 and at the time of her arrest was studying her Masters in human Rights & Legal Practice at the University of Roehampton.

Wallace is charged with the murder of Samuel Mayo, 34, who she became engaged to last month, in Lower Richmond Road on Monday, July 18.

A provisional trial date was fixed for June 12, next year.

Today, prosecutor Benjamin Holt confirmed the cause of death as sharp force trauma to the left side of Mr Mayo’s chest, inflicted with a knife.

He was treated by London Ambulance Service paramedics at 10.00pm and rushed to Kingston Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10.10pm.

Police attended the one-bedroom flat Wallace had shared with her fiancé for the previous six months and she was arrested on suspicion of his murder at 2.25am in the early hours of July 19.

One female security officer accompanied Wallace in the secure dock and after the hearing she mouthed words to her family in the public gallery above and shouted: “Love you all,” as she was taken back down to the cells.