EMMA: COURT DETAILS EMERGE
Penygroes murder case
MURDER victim Emma Baum’s killer told her young son that her death “didn’t matter” and that he could come and live with him, just hours after stabbing her to death, Mold Crown Court heard yesterday.
Emma sustained more than 20 severe head injuries during her brutal killing at the hands of her former partner, David Nicholas Davies.
Davies, 25, of Penrhiw Terrace in Clynnog near Caernarfon, has admitted murdering Emma, 22, on July 18, but he does not accept some of the prosecution’s case against him.
He denies the use of a knife, claiming he used a crowbar and does not accept the prosecution case that he took a weapon to the scene.
Emma was found dead in the back garden of her home in Ffordd Llwyndu, Penygroes, Dyffryn Nantlle.
Prosecuting barrister Simon Mills said Davies launched an attack on her in the early hours but then returned home after disposing of the murder weapon or weapons, which had never been found.
He then tried to set up his defence case for himself by sending messages to her phone, so he could raise the alarm from the scene saying he had found her dead by the back door.
He got her mother Amanda Williams to go there. She performed CPR on her daughter, but she later told police she knew in her heart that Emma was already dead.
Davies had stabbed, cut and punctured the young mum’s head, including one thrust that would have gone into her brain, the court heard.
It was alleged in court yesterday that when Davies went upstairs to get Emma’s two-year-old son – who had been on his own for six hours after Emma was murdered – he told him: “Oh I am so sorry. You have lost your mother. It doesn’t matter, you can come and live with your daddy.”
Judge Keith Thomas was told that neighbours had raised the alarm earlier at about 4am, having heard a woman screaming for help and “massive whacks”, and that someone was seen running away.
But police who attended reported that it was all quiet and that the house was in darkness.
Mr Mills told the judge it was the prosecution case that if a crowbar had been used it would have a bladed edge.
Davies denies earlier allegations that he had been violent towards her and had made threats to kill her.
The hearing, to decide on what basis he should be sentenced, is proceeding.