Mum left ‘I was murdered’ note after suffering ‘years of abuse from ex-boyfriend’

A susceptible young parent killed herself aft leaving a enactment claiming ‘I was murdered’ aft suffering years of alleged maltreatment by her ex-boyfriend.

Hairdresser Kiena Dawes, 23, wrote successful her enactment that Ryan Wellings, 30, had, ‘killed me’, Preston Crown Court was told.

Wellings denies manslaughter, battle and controlling and coercive behaviour to Ms Dawes during their two-year relationship.

Prosecutor Paul Greaney KC told jurors that connected July 22, 2022, Ms Dawes, from Fleetwood, Lancashire, had driven to a friend’s home.

When Ms Dawes arrived astatine the home, her person was successful the ablution truthful she ‘let herself in’, earlier placing down the car spot with her nine-month-old girl inactive wrong and leaving.

From there, she travelled to a state lane, wherever she took her ain beingness connected a railway line.

Mr Greaney said Ms Dawes had near her mobile phone with her daughter, wherever a termination enactment was discovered.

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Ms Dawes’ telephone note, shown connected surface successful court, read: ‘The end. I fought hard, I fought long. I went done symptom nary 1 could imagine. I was murdered. Ryan Wellings killed me. He ruined each spot of spot I had left. I didn’t merit it.

‘I anticipation my beingness saves different by constabulary services acting faster. Don’t fto bullies unrecorded free,’ she said, earlier penning to her daughter: ‘I’m atrocious I fto you go… I’m truthful atrocious I had to go.

‘The satellite turned their backmost connected me. I was strong. I had dreams. I had a aboriginal astatine 1 point. That was taken distant from me.’

She added successful the enactment she hoped her girl was ‘kept distant from the monster who is called her dad’.

Mr Greaney told jurors Ms Dawes’ ain words explained the prosecution’s case, claiming her decease was caused by Wellings’ actions and helium is blameworthy of her manslaughter.

From the ‘beginning’ of their relationship, Wellings allegedly subjected Ms Dawes to controlling and coercive behaviour, maltreatment and violence, implicit a prolonged period, the tribunal heard.

Mr Greaney explained Ms Dawes had been diagnosed with an Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, resulting successful accrued impulsivity, mediocre self-esteem and trouble successful relationships.

Wellings allegedly exploited her mental health condition, and portion the information played a portion successful her determination to instrumentality her ain life, truthful excessively did his abuse, including a last battle which near her successful infirmary 11 days earlier she took her ain life.

The suspect claims Ms Dawes’ accusations against him are either untrue oregon exaggerated and immoderate injuries she suffered earlier her decease were a effect of his attempts to restrain her oregon accidental.

The mates archetypal met each different done Ms Dawes’ brother, a person of the defendant, successful January 2020 and an ‘intense’ narration began.

Within weeks Wellings had his caller girlfriend’s sanction and look tattooed connected his body, the tribunal heard.

After the archetypal Covid lockdown began, Ms Dawes moved to Dorset and Wellings followed soon after.

But successful May 2020, a person of Ms Dawes visited the level to find it smashed up and she told her person that Wellings had tried to strangle her with an iPhone charger cable.

On different occasion, it’s alleged Wellings accused Ms Dawes of sleeping with a person of theirs, screamed astatine her she was a ‘slag’, threw a stool astatine her and told her to termination herself.

Ms Dawes fled from the house, but aboriginal returned to him.

The proceedings continues.

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