A New Zealand mother has gone into gruesome detail in describing how she watched a man stab her daughter 216 times.Lesley Elliott told the High Court at Christchurch how she broke into her daughter, Sophie’s, bedroom only to see Sophie’s ex-boyfriend Clayton Weatherston straddling her legs and stabbing her over and over again in complete silence.
Weatherston is claiming provocation as a defence to the murder charge, at a trial expected to run for three weeks before Justice Judith Potter and a jury.
“I thought he was going right through her," Mrs Elliott said.
Her daughter suffered stabs wound to almost every part of her body.
Her ears, part of her nose, one nipple and one of her inner labia were cut off.
She had 45 stab wounds to her throat and 26 to her temple as well as both her eyes and concentrated wounds to one cheek and the left side of her neck.
“I never heard him say a word,” Mrs Elliott told the court.
She ran upstairs to her daughter’s bedroom after hearing her daughter screaming, but couldn’t break the door down.
She said the screaming stopped and was replaced by rhythmic “thumping”, which she thought meant Mr Weatherston was raping her daughter.
Mrs Elliott finally managed to open the door with a meat skewer and was on the phone to emergency services when she laid eyes on the horrific scene in front of her.
"I screamed and screamed: 'He's killed her, he's killed her’," she told the court.
“The whole room was red,” she said.
Earlier that day, Sophie was packing her bags for a move to a new job in Wellington.
Before she left, Mrs Elliott answered the door to find Mr Weatherston holding a supermarket bag, claiming he had “something to give” Sophie.
The two went up to Sophie’s bedroom, and the next time Mrs Elliott saw her daughter, she was lying on her bed on her back with Mr Weatherston stabbing her.
He pushed her back out of the room and closed the door.
Emergency services told Mrs Elliott to go outside and wait for the police.
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