“I HURT him, I hurt him, I just need to know he's Ok,” a murder-accused woman allegedly said after reportedly stabbing her boyfriend twice in the chest.
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 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.
At the trial on Tuesday (September 3), prosecutor Jeremy Benson KC read out a prepared statement from Isobel Ellison, who lived with the defendant.
She is the mother of Heywood’s former partner, Tom.
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In the statement, Ms Ellison claims that Heywood called her at about 12.36pm on the day of the incident.
She wrote: “At 12.36pm, Bailey called me. She was utterly distraught and crying. I asked her where she was and she said she was in the garage.
"I asked her what happened and she said, 'I hurt him, I hurt him, I just need to know he's okay, I just need to know he's Ok.'
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"I heard sirens and then she hung up."
Ms Ellison also claimed that Heywood has a ‘history of self-harm’ and had tried to take her own life two weeks prior to the Mr Bond’s death.
On Tuesday, the jury also heard from Mr Bond’s wife, Emma, who was in the process of divorcing Mr Bond at the time of his death.
Mrs Bond, who was a cleaner for Ms Ellison, said she was aware the defendant and her husband were dating and claims he had called her on March 7 stating Heywood had harmed herself.
After going to the defendant’s home, she told the jury: "[Heywood] was sat on the bed and as I entered the room, she appeared to back away from me.
"I saw a knife and I saw some superficial wounds on her body...on her legs. [The knife] was next to her on the bed.”
Mrs Bond said Mr Ellison was in the house at the time and had come upstairs after hearing her enter the home.
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She said: “[He was] very angry. They had been intimate together on the sofa. Tom then proceeded to show me on his mobile phone that they had been discussing moving into a new flat together.
“Tom said, 'Why have you gone to him? Why have you messaged him?'
"The only reason it appears, to me, why it was clear [to him] was because I was at the address.”
The trial continues.
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