Post by Queen of the Damned on Jul 13, 2009 20:30:44 GMT -5
A 19-year-old British model told an emergency call operator her boyfriend had stabbed her moments before she died, a court has heard.
Amy Leigh Barnes called 999 — the British equivalent of triple 0 — minutes after her 21-year-old boyfriend, Ricardo Morrison, attacked her with a kitchen knife, prosecutors told Manchester Crown Court, the Times newspaper reports.
"I'm dying … he stabbed me to death … please help me," Barnes whispered to the operator.
The operator asked Miss Barnes who had stabbed her, she replied "My boyfriend", the jury was told.
The teenager was later found in a pool of blood by her father, but died a short time later, prosecutor Stuart Driver, QC, said.
Miss Barnes suffered five knife wounds to her chest and four to her back, puncturing her liver, as well as a 10cm face slash across her face.
Morrison, who denies murdering his girlfriend, abruptly left the dock when Mr Driver described Amy's horrific injuries, holding up the trial for half an hour before composing himself.
He sat in the dock with his 49-year-old policewoman mother Melda Wilks, who herself denies washing his clothes to destroy possible forensic evidence.
Mr Driver told the court Miss Barnes called the emergency services hotline just after 11.30am on November 8 last year from her grandmother's house, where she had been staying with Morrison.
The court heard the couple had been together a year before their relationship soured, with the prosecution saying Morrison had punched Barnes, sprayed aerosol in her face and locked her in the house the day she was killed.
Miss Barnes contacted a phone company to disconnect the phone Morrison was using before calling her mother to arrange for her father to free her from the house.
Within two minutes of that call Miss Barnes had been fatally stabbed and made the emergency call.
The jury is now expected to hear evidence from a witness who allegedly saw Morrison washing himself in a pool near where the murder weapon was found.
The trial continues.
news.ninemsn.com.au/world/837078/model-whispered-999-plea-just-before-death
how horrible.
Amy Leigh Barnes called 999 — the British equivalent of triple 0 — minutes after her 21-year-old boyfriend, Ricardo Morrison, attacked her with a kitchen knife, prosecutors told Manchester Crown Court, the Times newspaper reports.
"I'm dying … he stabbed me to death … please help me," Barnes whispered to the operator.
The operator asked Miss Barnes who had stabbed her, she replied "My boyfriend", the jury was told.
The teenager was later found in a pool of blood by her father, but died a short time later, prosecutor Stuart Driver, QC, said.
Miss Barnes suffered five knife wounds to her chest and four to her back, puncturing her liver, as well as a 10cm face slash across her face.
Morrison, who denies murdering his girlfriend, abruptly left the dock when Mr Driver described Amy's horrific injuries, holding up the trial for half an hour before composing himself.
He sat in the dock with his 49-year-old policewoman mother Melda Wilks, who herself denies washing his clothes to destroy possible forensic evidence.
Mr Driver told the court Miss Barnes called the emergency services hotline just after 11.30am on November 8 last year from her grandmother's house, where she had been staying with Morrison.
The court heard the couple had been together a year before their relationship soured, with the prosecution saying Morrison had punched Barnes, sprayed aerosol in her face and locked her in the house the day she was killed.
Miss Barnes contacted a phone company to disconnect the phone Morrison was using before calling her mother to arrange for her father to free her from the house.
Within two minutes of that call Miss Barnes had been fatally stabbed and made the emergency call.
The jury is now expected to hear evidence from a witness who allegedly saw Morrison washing himself in a pool near where the murder weapon was found.
The trial continues.
news.ninemsn.com.au/world/837078/model-whispered-999-plea-just-before-death
how horrible.
