A young model who dialled 999 moments before she died told the operator her boyfriend had stabbed her as she pleaded for help, a court heard today.
Amy Leigh Barnes made the desperate call minutes after Ricardo Morrison, 21, attacked her with a kitchen knife, Manchester Crown Court was told.
The 19-year-old told the operator: ‘He’s stabbed me to death … my boyfriend, please help me.’
The part-time model and actress was found a short time later by her father lying in a pool of blood, Stuart Driver QC, prosecuting, told the court.
Mr Driver, opening the case for the prosecution, said Amy called 999 shortly after 11.30am on November 8 last year from her grandmother’s house in Farnworth near Bolton, where the young couple had been staying.
He then recounted Amy’s 999 call to the jury.
”I’m dying. He’s stabbed me to death. I’m dying. Please help me.
‘The operator asked who had stabbed her and she said “my boyfriend”.’
Shortly afterwards Morrison abruptly dashed from the dock when the prosecutor began summarising the post mortem findings of the Home Office pathologist who examined Miss Barnes’ body.
The injuries included a 10cm long slash across her face – a cut going from the right corner of the victim’s mouth along her cheek.
She also suffered five wounds to her chest and four to her back, several of which penetrated her liver.
Following an examination of the size of the knife and the injuries, it seemed the blade had been forced fully into the victim with ‘severe force’ during the attack, Mr Driver said.
At this point the defendant, wearing a white shirt, tie, waistcoat and silver stud earring, turned his back and ran towards the cells.
The hearing was temporarily adjourned, and the jury left court.
Earlier, the prosecutor told the court the couple had been together for around a year.
Morrison, who denies murder, had moved from his native Birmingham to live with Miss Barnes, first at her mother’s house, then to share the spare bedroom at her grandmothers’ two-up two-down terraced home in Moss Street in Farnworth.
But there were ‘serious problems’ in their relationship, the jury was told.
At 1am on the day she was murdered she had sent a text message from her mobile phone to Morrison, saying ‘You are out of my life for good,’ the court heard.
Hours later her grandmother left the house for work, leaving the young couple alone in the house.
Morrison, it is alleged, then attacked Amy, punching her, spraying an aerosol in her face and then hurting her arm in a door, Mr Driver told the jury.
He then left to go into Bolton, locking her in the house.
While he was out ‘angry’ text messages resumed between them, the victim calling him a ‘woman beater’ and telling him: ‘I hate you. It’s over. Leave me alone.’
Miss Barnes, ‘upset and tearful’ then called her mother, who lived across town in another part of Bolton, who was ‘very worried’ about her daughter.
With Morrison on his way back to the house, they agreed her father would go to collect a house key from her grandmother and pick her up to bring her to their house.
That call ended at 11.33am, when Amy was alive and well, the court heard.
‘Then something happened very quickly because, just two minutes later, at 11.35am, she called 999 and said he’s stabbed me, my boyfriend,’ Mr Driver added.
‘Having got off the bus, he walked the short distance to the house, let himself in, attacked her with the knife and left her for dead.
‘Soon, her father turned up, opened the front door and found his daughter at the bottom of the stairs, a pool of blood beneath her.
‘You can imagine his reaction, his panic.’
Police and paramedics arrived and the victim was rushed to the Royal Bolton Infirmary.
Despite the efforts of medics they could not save her life and she was pronounced dead at 2.40pm.
Morrison is in the dock alongside his mother, Melda Wilks, 49, who is a policewoman in the West Midlands force.
She is accused of assisting an offender, her son, by allowing evidence to be destroyed following the killing.
Both have pleaded not guilty.
The trial continues.
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And the ugly white was fucking disgusting, just as you all fucking albino mandrills are…with such a disgusting skin and shapeless face! Ughhh, I want to vomit.
Fucking white mandrills. You don’t deserve to live around people. Hope more of you get killed… for a better planet!!
Stunning blonde, could have had any man she wanted but chose a black guy who beat her and treated her like shit.
What is wrong with girls these days? Always after black ‘bad’ boys then astonished when they get beaten, raped and murdered.
Obviously been brainwashed by MTV videos where stunning goals submissivley drape themselves over ignorant, thug, gangstas and brilliant rolemodels like Katie Price who get impregnated and dumped.
She deserved such as death. It is what you have when you decide to practice a crime like interracial.
Interracial SUCKS!
LOL this is funny.
Golly, it tis a pity we cannot reach in through the guise of the computer screen and into the Internet and pull some commenters out though our screens and into our kitchens where the butcher knives hang on the wall… 8)
This is a sad situation, my prayers go out to the victims family. For the ones leaving racist comments, yall are so stupid. NOBODY deserves to die, blk, white, green, purple, whatever! Why is it that whites always want to call blks monkeys?? come on now grow the hell up. Yes i am a PROUD african american and really dnt care what anybody think of me WHITE R BLK. blks r not wild aggressive ppl, we have the same about of aggression as a white person! Some ppl r so stuck in the past til its sad Blks r goin 2 b around til the end of time GET OVER IT N GET USE 2 IT!!
You reap what you sow.
She was a shit reacked fucking bich hoo had fucking SEX with a fucking black man :-o
Go find some one hotter have lots of fucking SEX…
maby he did the righ thing if he tryed tieing her up and makeing her suffer that would be better :-D
You people are stupid! I’ve dated several black men and they are fantastic, gentle men, far more gentle than any white man I’ve ever dated. off course my parents would have preferred i dated women, but I’ve discovered my sexuality in my late teens and black men always interested me the most. I am caucasian but white men always treated me incorrectly or cheated on me, while black men were always nice and educated, even in bed they always behaved in a gentle caring way, not like others that only think of rushing up my arse. My best boyfriend was a senegalese young man 15 years younger than me, I’m 41, and hadn’t he returned to his country after his shop was arsoned, we would have lived together.
what a fag
You’re disgusting vermin. You will be cleansed from our noble race. GOOD RIDDANCE you filthy pig!
“his native birmingham” more like the jungles of africa. she go what she deserved.
she was a dummy to even look at that monkey and spread her legs for him! abused and killed by a nig, gee, surprise surprise!!!
Ricardo?? there is nothing Latin about that ape!why would any parent allow his/her kid associate with that kinky hair pest? grow some balls Europe and deal with the negro infestation once and for all. you took care of the jews, I didn’t see many of them out there last time I visited.
If it was a white man killed a black woman.There would be riots. on the World News taking about his hard life!I say the family gets 1 hr with him armed with baseball bats then Hang him! and yes I,am letting him off easy!
The dumb, blonde bitch got what she deserved by having sex with these animals
no one deserves to die ass hole…Animals?? bitch you’re the animal stupid ass