A WOMAN found fatally injured in the street last December told three young students her partner had hit her over the head with a television after she refused to let him touch her sexually in front of friends, a court has heard.

Hayley Wall, who was 25, suffered a bleed to the coverings of her brain at some point during the evening of December 13. She died in hospital on December 23.

Christopher Wall, 59, who jurors heard was both her partner and her uncle, denies murdering Miss Wall at the home they shared in Shelbourne Road, Charminster.

On the first day of a trial at Winchester Crown Court yesterday, prosecutor Kerry Maylin said the couple and some friends had been drinking at Hadrian’s in Charminster Road before Miss Wall sustained head injuries.

During the evening, Miss Wall and the defendant went for a cigarette outside, and friends noticed an “atmosphere” between them when they returned.

It was alleged that after Wall left the pub, Miss Wall turned to friend Linda Godfrey with tears in her eyes and asked: “Why does he keep doing this to me?”

She returned home at around 7.50pm. Lodger Adrian Bassett saw Miss Wall and Wall hug in the kitchen before the two went upstairs.

However, he then heard a loud row break out, it is claimed.

Ms Maylin said: “[Mr Bassett] could hear noises.

“He described it as being like children chasing each other. There were thuds coming from the floor above. He heard shouting and arguing.”

Mr Bassett then heard noises “as if someone was being dragged along the ground,” Ms Maylin said.

“He heard Christopher Wall say, ‘Is this the way you want to be treated? Is this the way you want to be ******* treated? Is it?’

“He heard Hayley Wall crying. He formed the view she was in pain and shouting ‘No’ over and over again,” the prosecutor said.

“The sounds he heard he described as ‘horrible’.

“He heard no crying, no painful shouts or sounds emanating from Christopher Wall.”

Miss Wall then went into Mr Bassett’s room. He alleged to police she was “covered with blood” and urged her to call an ambulance.

However, she instead left the property.

Lee Turner saw Miss Wall as he walked along Shelbourne Road. She was “distraught” and asked to use his phone, but he refused, it was heard.

Three female students out for a Christmas meal then saw Miss Wall in Charminster Road. One, Maria Hernandez, noticed Miss Wall was bleeding and unable to walk in a straight line, prosecutors allege.

Jurors heard Miss Hernandez called an ambulance shortly before 9.20pm and the students waited with her until the ambulance arrived at 10.28pm. They made two further 999 calls as Miss Wall’s condition deteriorated.

Miss Wall initially told the students she had fallen over, but later said she’d been hit by her partner, it was heard.

Ms Maylin said: “She told them she had been in a pub with her partner and one of his friends.

“She said her partner wanted to touch her sexually in front of everyone and she had pushed him away. He had become angry.”

It is alleged that Miss Wall said to the students: “Before I left, he hit me with a television and I fell down. I fell down.”

She allegedly also told a paramedic: “My partner smashed a TV over the top of my head.”

Police went to Wall’s address at 11.40pm and found the defendant asleep in bed. He was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and taken to hospital to be treated for minor stab wounds to his back, and a deeper cut to a hand.

Further police investigation revealed he had created – and deleted – six media files on his phone, the court heard.

In one, he had allegedly recorded himself saying: “I’m not sure what has happened.

“She really ******* riled me up tonight.”

In the recording, the man prosecutors allege is Wall says he’s been stabbed and is having trouble breathing before adding: “I’m special. All so ******* special.”

A later clip allegedly recorded by Wall says: “That little **** stabbed me in the back for no reason at all.

“I know I’ve been leaking blood everywhere.

“When I say ‘that little ****’, I mean Hay.”

Police allegedly later found some of Miss Wall’s blood on a silver television. Two long, dark hairs were also found in a cracked and “significantly damaged” door which had been taken from its hinges, the court heard.

The trial continues.