A MAN accused of murdering his girlfriend wrote a memo in his mobile phone in which he claimed she had a stalker.

Ricardo Morrison, aged 22, wrote a lengthy note, entitled “Oh My God”, in which he described a row between himself and his girlfriend Amy Barnes.

The evidence was read out yesterday, the sixth day of Morrison’s trial at Manchester Crown Court, where he denies murder.

The jury heard that police seized a Blackberry mobile phone belonging to Morrison on November 9 last year — the day after Amy was found stabbed to death in the Farnworth home she had shared with the defendant.

The memo appears to describe the morning of the killing when the couple woke up.

Reading from the memo, prosecutor Stuart Driver told the jury: “She (Amy Barnes) then said she doesn’t want to be left on her own as she’s scared. I ask of what and she replied that there is a stalker who has followed her home a numerous of occasions (sic).”

The memo goes on to describe a row between the couple with Amy accusing Morrison of wanting to cheat on her.

It continues: “I picked up the front door key and she said when I get home I won’t be in your life, I love but left without reply (sic). I could hear her crying and screaming and she shouted watch what happens when you get back.”

The memo ends when Morrison describes arriving home.

“I got to the front door and I couldn’t get in with the key so I went the back way and the gate was open and so was d back patio door. I left and came home (sic).”

Amy was stabbed repeatedly with a kitchen knife at her grandmother’s house in Moss Street, Farnworth, where she had been living with Morrison. The prosecution allege that he was responsible for the attack.

Morrison’s mother Melda Wilks, aged 49, of Hollyhill Road, Rubery, who is a police officer in the West Midlands force, is also on trial and denies assisting an offender.

The case continues.