“I wasn’t thinking I just did it,” said a woman who had admitted to stabbing her boyfriend twice in the chest but has denied murder.

Bailey Heywood, 23, of Germander Way, Bicester, stabbed Dale Bond, 45, twice in the chest at his home address in Mullein Road on the morning of March 13.

The pair had been dating for over a year prior to his death.

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However, Heywood has denied the charge of murder as well as an alternative charge of manslaughter, stating she thought Mr Bond was going to stab her first.

She is now on trial at Oxford Crown Court.

During the proceedings on Tuesday (September 10), Heywood was cross-examined on the stand by prosecuting barrister Jeremy Benson KC.

Earlier in the trial, the jury heard that Heywood had stabbed Mr Bond after he had allegedly got angry about her receiving messages from her ex-boyfriend, Tom Ellison.

She said he had reportedly got a knife from a kitchen and was ‘shouting’ about Mr Ellison, threatening to kill him.

Heywood told the jury she also got a knife from the kitchen.

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When asked by Mr Benson why she didn’t just leave the flat when Mr Bond retrieved a knife, she said: “I’m not sure.

“I don’t know, I just went and got a knife. I don’t know. I don’t know why I just did it, I wasn’t thinking about it.

“I just got scared and went and got the knife.”

Mr Benson said:  “You could have got out of the flat, why didn’t you?”

She replied: “I don’t know. I didn’t decide to stab him. I went over to him to try and calm him down.”

Heywood claims that she then sat on the opposite sofa to Mr Bond, with a coffee table between them.

“He carried on saying he was going to kill Tom,” she said. “He said again he was going to kill that c*** and he went to stand up and I stabbed him.

“He had a knife in his hand and I thought he was going to stab me. I don’t know why, I just did it. I was scared.

“I wasn’t thinking I just did it. I stabbed him once and I leant over and the second as I stepped forwards.”

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Heywood said Mr Bond had allegedly not stood all the way up by the time she had injured him.

Mr Benson said: “So he hadn’t got near to you at all…he wasn’t a threat to you was he?”

“No,” Heywood replied.

The trial continues this week.