Tinder stalker Paul Lambert declared he was ‘in love’ with woman he stabbed Angela Jay, within days of meeting
PSYCHOTIC Tinder stalker Paul Lambert sent a friend a series of texts boasting he had fallen “head over heels” for a pretty blonde doctor and both had declared “I love you” within days of meeting.
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PSYCHOTIC Tinder stalker Paul Lambert sent a friend a series of texts boasting he had fallen “head over heels” for a pretty blonde doctor and both had declared “I love you” within days of meeting.
The smooth-talking finance worker sent school pal Grant O’Neill a message in August saying “I’m the luckiest guy in the world” after meeting obstetrician and gynaecologist Angela Jay, 28.
Lambert bragged “I’m so happy, I can’t believe it’s finally happened” and discussed plans to throw a lavish New Year’s Eve party for her and friends in his native Brisbane.
Weeks later, however, when the Californian-born medic cooled off their short-lived romance, Lambert attacked her in her Port Macquarie home last Thursday, stabbing her 11 times.
He had placed her underwear on her bed with some cable ties to use for rape, then doused the bedroom in petrol.
Investigators believe he harboured a sick fantasy to rape the young doctor, kill her and burn down the house to remove evidence of the attack.
Miraculously she survived, talking neighbour Steve Willdern through first aid until an ambulance arrived.
Lambert, who fled in a hire car, was cornered by police at 9.45pm in Bonville, tasered and then shot dead when he resisted arrest.
The Daily Telegraph can now reveal Lambert had conned his way into accommodation attached to Macquarie Base Hospital where Dr Jay worked to track her moves for days while plotting his revenge bid.
He lied telling staff he had a sick relative in hospital to be eligible for a bed at Rotary Lodge.
Friends from Queensland’s Mansfield State School, where Lambert was dubbed “the psycho”, say in hindsight he was capable of such a heinous crime.
Former school friend Mr O’Neill said: “He was an all or nothing guy and texted me in September saying ‘Hi year-five friend, I’ve met the most amazing woman, I’m the luckiest guy in the world’.
“He said he had fallen head over heels and was besotted with Angela who he met on Tinder and couldn’t think about anything else.
“When he told me they had both said ‘I love you’ in less than two weeks after meeting I told him to go easy, he could be very intense.
“He said ‘no way’, he believed he had finally found the one.”
Indeed Lambert, 36, obsessed over the pretty medic even after she broke it off in October.
He plagued her with texts and in one day alone fired off 50 threatening messages and phone calls.
One text read: “Your (sic) not safe in that house. I have some of the house keys.”
Another read: “I need you to understand that this is my good side right now. That good side won’t last long. Especially being rejected.”
Mr O’Neill said: “At school he was odd, we jokingly called him ‘the psycho’ because he was hot-headed and would fly off the handle.
“But he wasn’t a loner, quite the opposite, he was very sociable, organising get-togethers in the pub and soccer nights.
“He fell out with his father as a child, they were estranged, and had only reconciled in recent months before his death last year.”
Outwardly sociable and professionally successful, Lambert appeared the perfect singleton on paper. However, his past exposes a serial stalker with a long history of domestic violence.
Originally from Brisbane, he changed his name when he moved to Kogarah to “start a new life” after he was deported from the USA last year after stalking prominent TV reporter Brittany Ann Keil, whom he met on Tinder while on his honeymoon.
The self-confessed “psychopath” had also viciously assaulted his ex-wife Samantha Inkpen, punching her several times in the face, as the pair drove to see a Justice of the Peace to sign their divorce papers in Brisbane in February.
His criminal history dates to 2003 when he was ordered by a Brisbane court to undergo psychiatric treatment for using a carriage service to menace or harass.
In 2004 he was convicted in Rockhampton Magistrates Court of breaching previous court orders and fined again for using a carriage service to menace or harass.
Lambert breached his release conditions in 2007 and was convicted and fined, and in 2011 was fined without conviction for common assault.
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