Woman ‘murdered as she made 999 call’

A jealous and abusive boyfriend was recorded on a 999 call as he stabbed his partner to death and told her: ‘You deserve it’, a court heard.

Kevin O’Regan, 37, allegedly plunged a kitchen knife twice into the chest of 44 year-old waitress Donna Williamson after threatening to kill her if she called the police.

The tape of her desperate call to the emergency services captured him saying to her he was going to get a knife followed by the sound of screaming, it is claimed.

O’Regan can then be heard saying: ‘You are f***ing dead.

‘You are dying, you are dying mate, your life is slipping away from you.

‘What you done to me you c***, you f***ing deserve it wh*re you c***.

‘She’s dying, she’s dead. You want to piss me off that’s what you f***ing get you b***h.’

Police arrived at Ms Williamson’s home in Oakcroft on Somertrees Avenue, Lee, southeast London, to find her body in the communal hallway to the flat.

She had been stabbed twice in the chest, once in the heart and once in the lung and was pronounced dead shortly after midnight on 13 August last year.

O’Regan told officers he had killed her and added: ‘No other c**t is getting near her, she’s dead.’

He also told custody officers: ‘I killed her, I ain’t going to deny it, I f***ing killed her.’

O’Regan now claims that Ms Williamson was killed accidentally after she picked up the knife and he attempted to disarm her.

But prosecutor Timothy Cray told the Old Bailey that a neighbour heard O’Regan shout: ‘If you call the police I am going to kill you.’

O’Regan also jealously accused Ms Williamson of seeing other men at her flat before launching the attack.

Mr Cray told the jurors they would hear the 999 call which the victim made at 11.13pm on 12 August.

He said: ‘She made the call because she feared that he was going to attack her, maybe even to kill her. It was the last act of her life.’

The court heard there was a background of drunkenness and violence in the turbulent relationship between O’Regan and Ms Williamson.

Mr Cray said: ‘There appears to have been an element of sexual jealously.’

He added: ‘We say that urged on by drink in his body and the jealousy in his mind, he was prepared to escalate his threats and act on them by taking a knife and using it to lethal effect, stabbing her twice in the centre of the body.

‘It may be something he regrets now but all the evidence shows that in the moments that matter he was willing to turn his threats into lethal actions.’

O’Regan, of (112) Birdsbrook Road, Eltham, southeast London, denies murder.
The trial continues.