The killer of Speke teenager Kelsey Shaw denied locking his victim in the house and strangling her in a fit of temper.
Callum Wilcocks, now 23, killed his on-off girlfriend after a row about them seeing other people on April 29, 2011, at a flat in Foundry Lane, Widne .
Wilcocks, of Hale Drive, Widnes, admits causing Kelsey’s death but claims a combination of a personality disorder and a loss of self control means he is only guilty of manslaughter.
He told Liverpool Crown Court that Kelsey, 17, claimed their three-year-old daughter was not his child and had taunted him over his sexual performance in the moments before he killed her.
But Simon Medland, QC, prosecuting, accused Wilcocks of losing his temper because Kelsey said he was an “alcoholic” and locking the slim, lightly built teenager inside the flat to prevent her escape.
The court heard they initially had an argument after Kelsey became angry with Wilcocks for failing to call them a taxi.
Wilcocks said she called him “an alcoholic” and “f****** useless”, prompting him to grab her neck to “make her be quiet.”
He said he let go, but another row ensued in which she made the comments about their daughter and said that she wished he had “killed himself.”
But Mr Medland said: “The reason why Kelsey was behind the locked front door of that flat, one reason and one reason only, she was trying to get away from you. You came up from behind, she had no opportunity to get away, and you levered your arm around her neck and you murdered her?”
Wilcocks replied: “That is totally incorrect.”
Kelsey Shaw from Speke
The court had earlier heard that the pair had been drinking and snorting cocaine with Kelsey’s friend Rebecca McDonald, at Miss McDonald’s flat.
The attack occurred while Miss McDonald was out of the flat, on the way back from dropping her baby son off at her mother’s house.
Wilcocks claimed he attacked Kelsey after a phone call from Miss McDonald saying she had returned and was outside.
Giving evidence earlier in the trial, Miss McDonald told the jury she has tried to get inside but found the door locked, and said she could hear “heavy breathing” from behind the door.
Wilcocks claimed this was the sound of him desperately trying to perform CPR on the victim.
Mr Medland said: “At what point in this sequence, if she was already dead, at what point do you say you had killed her?”
Wilcocks replied: “In between the time from Beccy coming from the top of the street to the front door.”
Mr Medland suggested that Wilcocks had killed Kelsey before then, and was lying about her provocative remarks.
He said: “She was very short, very light. She was no physical threat to you was she?”
Wilcocks replied: “She has assaulted me, anyone can be a physical threat to anybody.”
The court is set to hear expert medical evidence on Wilcocks’ mental state this afternoon.
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