A woman “trapped” inside an aggressive and controlling relationship bled to lack of life after a violent sexual assault, a jury has heard.
Paul Irwin, 50, of Whitehaven, Cumbria, has denied the murder and sexual assault of Tiffany Render, 34, on 22 March.
On the opening day of Irwin’s trial at Carlisle crown court docket docket, the prosecutor Iain Simkin KC talked about Render was an “extremely vulnerable woman who was trapped inside an aggressive, violent and controlling relationship” with the defendant.
He talked about paramedics have been known as to Irwin’s flat in Whitehaven shortly sooner than midnight and “remarked that Tiffany was surrounded by blood-soaked bedding”.
She was pronounced ineffective merely after midnight. Simkin talked about her accidents have been sustained all through a sexual assault and “resulted in almost immediate bleeding and she bled to death inside the defendant’s home”.
Simkin outlined violent incidents that he talked about had taken place all through Render’s relationship with Irwin.
On 17 July ultimate yr, Render phoned the ambulance service saying she was increasingly concerned about Irwin’s conduct.
During the choice, Irwin struck her “multiple times with a wooden rolling pin”, Simkin talked about, inflicting marks to her abdomen. She was moreover slapped, strangled and had her hair pulled, the jury was knowledgeable.
In February, Render alleged that she had been assaulted as soon as extra with a forceful kick to the underside by Irwin. This, she knowledgeable police, obtained right here in the direction of a background of his binge consuming, cocaine use, rising administration and repeated aggression in course of her.
After the alleged February assault, Render left the flat and talked about she was knowledgeable by Irwin that he would burn photographs of her kids if she didn’t return, the jury heard.
In an announcement, Render knowledgeable police: “I have said to him if you burn those photographs then I will kill you. He has then stated: ‘Come up here and I will kill you, I’m telling you now that I’ll fucking kill you.’”
The jury was knowledgeable that Render alleged Irwin exercised “full control” over her life, limiting entry to money and get in contact with collectively along with her kids, inspecting her cellphone and telling her what she could and couldn’t eat.
Simkin talked about it was anticipated that Irwin would declare Render consented to intercourse and that her lack of life was “an accidental result of sexual activity”.
He knowledgeable jurors: “The prosecution submit that it is possible for you to to reject that assertion.
“We will invite you to consider the nature of their relationship, the background to this offence, the violence which the defendant previously used upon the deceased and the extreme nature of the injuries themselves; which, taken together we say, is evidence which torpedoes Mr Irwin’s claim that Tiffany consented to the penetration.”
The trial continues.
