'She was covered in blood, on her hands, on her face. She was upset and she was crying.'
A police officer found Kiena Dawes “covered in blood” days before she was allegedly driven to suicide by her abusive partner, a court heard.
The defendant, of Bispham, also denies assault and controlling and coercive behaviour to the mum-of-one during their relationship between January 2020 and July 2022. PC Sawyer told the jury about the scene when she got to Miss Dawes’ flat in Fleetwood at around 10.30am on July 11. “She was covered in blood, on her hands, on her face. She was upset and she was crying. She had a cut to the right side of her head.The officer dressed Miss Dawes’ nine-month-old daughter, who was taken to her grandmother’s, and her mother was taken to hospital in Blackpool for treatment.
His notes of what she told him detailed “emotional and physical abuse”, controlling behaviour, telling her to “kill herself” and living “in fear” of Wellings. There were also earlier incidents of alleged domestic violence but Miss Dawes had decided she did not want to “press charges.”
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