Daughter's 'last words' testimony

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The mother of a young model allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend has described her daughter's desperate pleas shortly before her death.

Amy Leigh Barnes had been slashed and stabbed nine times when her father found her in a pool of blood at her grandmother's house in Bolton.

Karyn Killiner, her mother, spoke at the trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Ricardo Morrison, 21, denies murder. His mother, Pc Melda Wilks, of West Midlands, denies assisting an offender.

Mrs Killiner told the court that she had concerns about her daughter's relationship with Mr Morrison and had registered her with a local project for young women suffering domestic violence just five days before she died.

'Awful things'

On the night before she died Amy had visited her mother and was "excited" about arranging a birthday meal for a friend, the court heard.

But the next morning, the day she died on 8 November, her daughter called her on the phone upset and crying.

"When you answered the telephone, what did Amy say to you?" Stuart Driver, prosecuting, asked the witness.

Mrs Killiner told the court that her daughter pleaded with her to come and get her from her grandmother's house.

"She said to me, 'Will you come now?' and started to cry. I said, 'Yes darling'.

"She said she wanted to come home and that he had said some awful things to her. She had told him that he's not going to control her any more."

The trial continues.