A WOMAN stabbed her boyfriend to death with a kitchen knife in an angry rage over their relationship, a court heard.

Sarah Willis, 19, is accused of murdering 29-year-old Bilal Saddique at his home in Blackburn as they argued over an affair.

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Preston Crown Court was told how the defendant ran out into the road screaming hysterically and dripping with blood following the fatal stabbing.

She denies deliberately killing Mr Saddique, claiming he grabbed her hand while she was holding the blade and plunged it into his own thigh.

Francis McEntee, prosecuting, told the jury: “The argument came to a fatal conclusion.

Mr Saddique received a stab wound to the thigh that was inflicted by a kitchen knife. The knife was in the defendant’s hand when that fatal wound was delivered.

“Willis killed Mr Saddique, stabbing him in anger after he had once more brought their relationship to an end.”

BT engineer Mr Saddique died after picking his girlfriend Willis, of King’s Road, up from work at Curtis Law Solicitors on August 18.

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He had been jealous because he thought Willis was in a relationship with one of her colleagues, although she told him that nothing ‘romantic’ had ever happened between them, the court heard.

Mr Justice Holroyd heard how the defendant told Mr Saddique that the colleague had moved onto another job, but when he picked her up that evening, he saw the man leaving the office.

An argument broke out, which continued when they got back to his home in Revidge Road.

Mr McEntee said the defendant told Mr Saddique that she was going to collect her things, which included a shower panel and a box of colour-coded knives, and leave.

She told interviewers that the victim tried to pick her up and carry her down the stairs and while the fight continued, he claimed he had been having an affair with another woman.

The prosecutor said: “She described her feelings as this argument continued to the police. She described herself as crying and still worked up from the incident upstairs.

“The defendant’s account is that during this argument Mr Saddique was sitting on the work surface in the kitchen area and that during the course of this heightening argument, Mr Saddique started saying ‘come on, hit me’.

“He then went on to say ‘stab me if you hate me’.”

Willis then picked up the knife, it is alleged, and stabbed him in the left thigh, puncturing the femoral artery.

The prosecutor added: “The defence case is that Mr Saddique’s death was the consequence of a terrible accident. The knife was in Willis’s hand, there may be little dispute of that that.

“But Mr Saddique forced the knife towards himself in the context of the argument they were having.”

Following the incident, Willis made a call to the ambulance service, which was played to the jury of eight men and four women.

The defendant sobbed in the dock as the tape was played of her crying for help.

The court was told how while she was on the phone, she ran into the street to look for help and came across a neighbour, Paul Etherington, an operating theatre practitioner at Beardwood Hospital.

He told the court: “She was hysterical, crying and shouting for help.

“I shouted ‘what has happened’ and she said something like ‘help, he is bleeding’.

”She said that there had been a fight.”

Mr Etherington went into the house and saw a ‘big pool of blood’ on the floor. He gave CPR until the paramedics arrived, the judge heard.

Mr Saddique was pronounced dead at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.

The prosecutor said that despite Willis’s clear upset at what had happened, she had still murdered her partner.

He told the court: “The crown say that on all the evidence, this defendant was clearly distressed in the aftermath of the incident.

“But we say what had happened is the defendant had lashed out with the knife intending to cause really serious harm.

“The evidence of her intent to cause really serious harm is to be found in the use of a large knife which was driven deep into Mr Saddique’s thigh.”

Mr McEntee said a Home Office pathologist had given a statement saying it was possible the wound to Mr Saddique’s leg could have been caused accidentally, deliberately or could have also been self inflicted.

The prosecutor added: “Against the background of this clearly troubled relationship, the fatal wound resulted of the defendant’s actions and not the account which she gave in her interviews.”

Willis faces an alternative charge of manslaughter.

Proceeding.