Natalie Bennett, 47, is currently standing trial accused of the murder of 24-year-old Kasey Anderson
A woman accused of murdering her boyfriend after stabbing him in the heart previously left him "looking like the Elephant Man" in another assault, his auntie has claimed.
The witness told the jury: "I asked her what she’d done. She shouted back ‘it’s always me, isn’t it?’.Ms Anderson said that Kasey, who had lived with her and his grandma for "most of his life", had been in what was described as a "toxic" relationship with Bennett for around five years. She recalled one occasion when she was "busy upstairs, cleaning" during "2020, in the lockdown", saying: "She rang the doorbell, he answered.
Richard Pratt KC, prosecuting, then asked her about an incident in February 2022 when Mr Anderson arrived home at around 7am. Ms Anderson tearfully said on the stand: "He normally comes into my room, 'are you awake?'."Then I heard him sobbing. Really, really, really sobbing."When I seen his face, he’d been absolutely battered. His eyes."One of them was closing as I was looking at him. His neck had scratches all down him."His face was swollen.
Ms Anderson, who described the couple as "stinking of ale" at the time, took a tissue from her pocket and sobbed as she added: "He just walked off. He shut the gate and I watched him walk away with her." "He was back to Kasey, he was back to my lad. Two weeks before all this happened, he started drinking again.
"I wanted her to keep away from my lad. She’s destroying his life, she’s destroying my Kasey’s life - a 23-year-old lad.Ms Anderson then took her glasses off and sat sobbing in the witness box. She added: "She doesn’t care what she does to anyone." At the end of her evidence, she added before leaving the courtroom in tears: "We all know what she done. We all know what she done.Mr Pratt told the jury of four men and eight women during the prosecution's opening on Tuesday that Bennett's next door neighbours "heard raised voices" coming from the address at around 5.30pm on Saturday, March 11, before finding Mr Anderson "banging and kicking at their door" roughly 45 minutes later.
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