A YOUNG woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend twice in the chest, a murder trial has heard.

Bailey Heywood, 22, is on trial at Oxford Crown Court accused of murdering her partner Dale Bond, 45, in Bicester earlier this year.

The defendant allegedly stabbed Mr Bond, of Mullein Way, twice in the chest at his home address in Mullein Road on the morning of March 13.

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Heywood, who lived three minutes away in Germander Way, has denied the charge of murder as well as an alternative charge of manslaughter.

She is now on trial which is expected to last two to three weeks.

Opening the trial, prosecutor Jeremy Benson KC explained that Heywood lived with Isobel Ellison, the mother of her former partner Tom, at the time of the offence.

She had reportedly been dating Mr Bond for a year prior to the incident.

On March 13, Mr Ellison had allegedly been looking for Heywood in nearby pubs before the pair are seen together on CCTV at 12.20pm in Mullein Road.

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"The defendant was now wearing blood-stained pyjama bottoms," said Mr Benson. “Tom Ellison rang 999.

"The operator asked, 'Thames Valley Police, what’s your emergency?' Tom replied, 'Hello I just picked my girlfriend up and she said she’d just stabbed someone, and she’s covered in blood and they’re not breathing’.

"That someone was the deceased Dale Bond."

Emergency services rushed to the home and found the victim on the sofa with ‘large pools of congealed blood’.

They attempted resuscitation but he was pronounced dead at 1.08pm.

A pathology report revealed that Mr Bind had two significant stab wounds to the chest'.

A 5cm deep stab wound to the left-hand side and a 10cm stab wound to the right-hand side of his chest below the collar bone which was 'the fatal wound'. 

The report also showed that Mr Bond had 275mg of alcohol/100ml of blood, nearly three and a half times over the legal limit for drink driving.

Heywood was arrested out the home and officers stated she was  'crying, shaking and visibly upset' and asking how Mr Bond was.

 She reportedly said: "I'm sorry...oh god what have I done."

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Concluding the opening, Mr Benson said: “There is no dispute that this defendant stabbed and killed Dale Bond.

"A person who stabs another person twice in the chest with a knife using at least moderate force, must have intended at that time, we say, to cause at least really serious bodily injury.

"And that is why, the prosecution say, this defendant is guilty of murder."

The trial continues.