Key Events So Far 10:20 Proceedings underway
Judge Mr Justice Holroyde has called for the jury. He will be joined by the High Sheriff of Merseyside, who takes responsibility for the high court judges sitting in his county.
Gordon Cole, QC, prosecuting will read some written statements.
The first is from Susan Laverick, who works at the Church View pub, visited by the victim and her boyfriend on the night of her death.
She says Anthony Tomlinson and Alison Wilson came into the pub, and they spoke throughout the night.
She says around 11.15pm, they told her they had ordered a Page Lane chippy, and were planning to leave in a taxi.
“Throughout the evening Alison and Anthony were happy and in good spirits, I wasn
t working behind the bar but they were not drunk and they were well balanced.”
The next statement is from Joanne Howard, an emergency medical technician, which support paramedics in emergency situations.
She says she was requested to attend Frank Street, at around 23.37pm.
Upon arriving at Page Lane, she says she saw a babys dummy on the ground.
She said she could see Mr Tomlinson with severe lacerations to his cheek, chin and left eye.
She said: “Anthony was fully alert and stated he had five to six pints of alcohol, he was very worried about his partner.”
The next is from Imran Ansari, who was a medical registrar working out of Whiston Hospital.
He says Miss Wilson was brought into A&E “barely conscious, bleeding heavily and in shock.”
He says she twice suffered a cardiac arrest but recovered.
She was taken to theatre and surgeons found she had a cut to her a jugular vein.
Miss Wilson was taken to intensive care “gravely ill.”
The next statement is from Monica Humphries, a registered emergency nurse practitioner at Whiston Hospital.
She treated Anthony Tomlinson, who had facial lacerations, lacerations to his forehead, lip and chin.
He was referred to plastic surgeons to have the wound sealed.
10:19 Morning
I am in Liverpool Crown Court for day three of the trial of Stephen Duggan, for the murder of Good Samaritan Alison Wilson.
Stephen Duggan, 28, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of the 36-year-old, from Widnes, but denies her murder on Saturday, March 7 this year
He is alleged to have thrust a broken wine bottle into Ms Wilsons neck after she tried to stop him attacking a woman in Frank Street, Halton View, Widnes.
Duggan, of no fixed address, has admitted assaulting the woman and wounding another her boyfriend, Anthony Tomlinson, 43, who was in a taxi with Ms Wilson.
However he denies assault on a baby who fell from a car seat, carried by the other woman.
Yesterday Mr Tomlinson described how he awoke from being knocked unconscious to find Miss Wilson holding her neck, already fatally wounded.
He was left with his cheek slashed open, leaving his teeth visible through the wound.
Doctors tried to save Miss Wilson but she died six days later in hospital on March 13.
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/