A lady “trapped” inside an aggressive and controlling relationship bled to loss of life after a violent sexual assault, a jury has heard.
Paul Irwin, 50, of Whitehaven, Cumbria, has denied the homicide and sexual assault of Tiffany Render, 34, on 22 March.
On the opening day of Irwin’s trial at Carlisle crown court docket, the prosecutor Iain Simkin KC mentioned Render was an “extremely vulnerable woman who was trapped inside an aggressive, violent and controlling relationship” with the defendant.
He mentioned paramedics have been referred to as to Irwin’s flat in Whitehaven shortly earlier than midnight and “remarked that Tiffany was surrounded by blood-soaked bedding”.
She was pronounced useless simply after midnight. Simkin mentioned her accidents have been sustained throughout 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 mentioned had taken place throughout Render’s relationship with Irwin.
On 17 July final yr, Render phoned the ambulance service saying she was more and more involved about Irwin’s conduct.
During the decision, Irwin struck her “multiple times with a wooden rolling pin”, Simkin mentioned, inflicting marks to her stomach. She was additionally slapped, strangled and had her hair pulled, the jury was informed.
In February, Render alleged that she had been assaulted once more with a forceful kick to the bottom by Irwin. This, she informed police, got here towards a background of his binge consuming, cocaine use, growing management and repeated aggression in direction of her.
After the alleged February assault, Render left the flat and mentioned she was informed by Irwin that he would burn images of her youngsters if she didn’t return, the jury heard.
In an announcement, Render informed 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 informed that Render alleged Irwin exercised “full control” over her life, limiting entry to cash and get in touch with together with her youngsters, inspecting her cellphone and telling her what she may and couldn’t eat.
Simkin mentioned it was anticipated that Irwin would declare Render consented to intercourse and that her loss of life was “an accidental result of sexual activity”.
He informed jurors: “The prosecution submit that you will be able 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.
