A 44-YEAR-OLD man is due to appear in court tomorrow charged with murder after a “caring and bubbly” mum was stabbed to death in the store where she worked.

Jodie Louise Willsher was attacked at the Aldi store in Keighley Road, Skipton, on Thursday and suffered multiple serious injuries. She was taken by ambulance to Airedale General Hospital for emergency treatment but died despite the efforts of the medical team to save her.

Tonight, her husband Malcolm described the 30-year-old as “lovely and warm”, and always having a smile on her face.

“She was amazing, beautiful and a lovely person. She was a doting mother and a loving wife,” he added.

Neville John Hord, who is believed to have been living in Bradford, is set to appear at York Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, December 23.

The suspect was initially detained by members of staff and shoppers, police have said. He was then arrested by officers who were quickly on scene.

Meanwhile, police are appealing to trace a brave witness who restrained the suspect.

The man, who is aged in his 60s but possibly older, was wearing a flat cap and a lighter and darker two-tone walking-type jacket.

He was the first person to try and intervene and was involved in a sustained struggle to restrain the man.

It is believed he was shopping with a woman with short, light brown hair who was wearing a light-coloured, possibly grey, jacket.

They appear to have left the store before the emergency services arrived.

Mrs Willsher, whose maiden name was Dinsdale, has a daughter who is at primary school.

Her cousin Chris Swales paid tribute in a heartbreaking post on his Facebook page. He wrote: “Yesterday we lost a beautiful, fun loving and caring person. 

“How can life be so cruel?”

He said the incident had “left a husband without a wife and a little girl without her mother.”

Mr Swales said: “You weren’t just my Cousin Jodie, you were like the sister I never had and now I’m broken you’ve gone.”

Wilf Beattie, 68, said he was 10 yards away from where Mrs Willsher was stabbed - but he didn’t actually see it happen. He described turning around because of the commotion and seeing her lying motionless on the ground.

Mr Beattie said he helped to restrain a man at the scene.

Speaking at his home address in Eastburn, between Keighley and Skipton, the dad-of-three, a bricklayer, said he had said hello to the victim prior to the stabbing after becoming acquainted with her during his weekly Aldi shops.

He said: “I saw the lass, I said hello and then walked away. I then heard this commotion, I looked around. She was just lying on the floor.”

Mr Beattie said he did his weekly shop at Aldi and had spoken regularly to Mrs Willsher who he described as a “lovely lass who is always bubbly”.

Mr Beattie's wife, Susan Beattie, 70, was at the other side of the store when the incident happened. She said: “I was at the bottom end of the store at the opposite side. People were screaming and shouting. They were running out of the store.

“My husband was trying to hold his legs down so that he couldn’t escape.”

Kelly Blagden, 30, who left a tribute, said she was a former school friend of Mrs Willsher, and they were both pregnant at the same time when her friend was expecting her daughter, Megan, now aged four. She said Mrs Willsher had worked at the shop since it opened two years ago. Mrs Blagden added: “She’s a lovely girl, she was so in love, they were just the perfect relationship.”

The town council’s mayor Andy Rankine said: “The whole town is in shock and grieving over the loss of Jodie.”

People left tributes on a community Facebook page, saying “she was such a happy, friendly person”, while another described her as a “bubbly, lovely girl”.