Dad apologized to his six-year-old daughter after he slaughtered his mother (Photo)

Mark Morris, 39, killed Emma Day, his former girlfriend, near her home in West Norwood, south of London, right after she asked him to pay the child care service.

Day was “fighting” for existence, because she had two children to feed.

Child maintenance service had told him that he would be required to pay 1,277 pounds a year, or 24,56 pounds a week, reports The Sun”, the Periscope broadcast.

Sarah Whitehouse, following the charges, told Old Bailey: “although the amount he was required to pay was relatively modest, his income was also relatively modest. ”

But on the day of the attack, on May 25th, Morris had told his mother that: “I am saying goodbye to everyone, if I am still alive please don't visit me. ”

By 5: 00 p.m., Morris had had two beer cans and hid near the home of his ex-girlfriend Day.

But when she left, Morris ran towards Dayʹt with a long kitchen knife where he hit the mother of two children on his back.

The victim had two severe back injuries penetrated her lungs and was declared dead on the scene at 7:41./Periscopi/