A MAN accused of stabbing his teenage girlfriend to death fled the dock as graphic details of the alleged attack were read out to a jury.

Ricardo Morrison attempted to leave the courtroom as the prosecution alleged he had killed Amy Barnes for trying to end their relationship.

But he was quickly taken back to the dock at Manchester Crown Court.

Jurors heard how Miss Barnes dialled 999 as she lay dying on the floor of her Farnworth home.

Prosecutor Stuart Driver said that Amy told the operator: “I’m dying, he stabbed me to death. I’m dying, please help me.”

When the operator asked who stabbed her, she said: “My boyfriend.”

Morrison, aged 22, who denies murder, was living with Miss Barnes in the spare room of her grandmother’s house in Moss Street, Farnworth, at the time.

A post mortem examination revealed that Miss Barnes died from multiple stab wounds. She suffered five wounds to her front and four to her back, which penetrated her vital organs.

She also had a 10cm long wound on her face where her attacker drew the knife from the corner of her mouth across her cheek, the court heard.

Mr Driver told the jury that the wounds were up to 15 centimetres deep, which meant the knife must have been fully pushed into her body.

As Mr Driver described the horrific injuries, Morrison ran out of the dock and his co-accused, his mother, Melda Wilks, burst into tears. She denies assisting an offender.

The court heard that Miss Barnes and Morrison had been having difficulties in their relationship.

Earlier on the day she died, Saturday, November 8, last year, Morrison attacked Miss Barnes at their home. He punched her, sprayed an aerosol in her face and hurt her arm with a door.

After the attack, Morrison went into Bolton to go to the bank, locking Miss Barnes in the house.

She could not get out because she did not have a key.

She sent him a text message saying: “Leave me alone. I hate you. It’s over.”

Miss Barnes called her mum and told her what had happened.

It was arranged that her father, Andrew, would go to the supermarket where Miss Barnes’ grandmother worked and get a key to let her out of the house. That call ended at 11.33am.

“Then something happened very quickly because, just two minutes later, at 11.35am, she called 999,” said Mr Driver. But before her father could get there, Morrison returned to the house and stabbed her, the prosecution allege.

Mr Driver said: “Having got off the bus, he walked the short distance to the house, let himself in and attacked her with the knife and left her for dead.”

Soon after, Miss Barnes’ father arrived and found his daughter lying at the bottom of the stairs in a pool of blood.

Shortly after, paramedics arrived and Amy was taken to hospital, but she could not be saved and died at 2.40pm.

A man, who the prosecution say is Morrison, was seen a short time after on waste land near the house washing his hands in a puddle.

Police searched the area and found the murder weapon stuck in the seat of an abandoned car.

It is alleged that Morrison then got a bus to Birmingham to see his mother.

The prosecution say he went to Wilks’ home in Holly Hill Road, Rubery, where she helped him wash his clothes to try to get rid of forensic evidence.

The court heard that Wilks, aged 50, was a police officer and her role involved visiting schools to talk to youngsters about the consequences of knife crime.

The prosecution say that Wilks had been telephoned earlier in the day by Miss Barnes’ mother, Karyn Killiner, who told her that Miss Barnes’ was in intensive care and accused Morrison of stabbing her.

The case continues.