Woman ‘told police boyfriend will end up killing someone’
AWOMAN whose boyfriend has gone on trial accued of her murder had told police ‘he will end up killing someone’, a trial was told.
Matthew Bolland, 44, is accused of killing Pamela Ann Mellor, 55, by beating her to the face and head and compressing her neck, a trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard. He denies murder.
A jury of eight men and four women heard Miss Mellor, from Bosley, had been in an on off relationship with Bolland for several months.
Miss Mellor, who was said to have ‘had a heart of gold’ and ‘would do anything to help anyone’, was found dead by police at a mutual friend of the couple’s flat on Meriton Road, Handforth, in the early hours of August 18 last year.
The jury heard from police statements from Miss Mellor detailing her fears that Bolland was ‘a dangerous and violent man’ and alleging previous assaults on her at his hands.
Prosecuting barrister John Benson read a statement to the court from Miss Mellor given before her death.
It was about an incident on April 11 last year when she was allegedly attacked by Bolland in a hotel in Manchester.
The police statement said that she had travelled to Manchester from Cheshire to pass on £100 from Bolland’s mother and that he had then consumed the drug spice in Piccadilly Gardens.
The statement read: “He was out of his face for around 20 minutes, crawling on the floor and laughing like a zombie.”
Later the pair travelled to the Imperial Hotel on Hathersage Road, Manchester, where Miss Mellor claimed Bolland locked the door and kept the key to his room and refused to let her leave.
The statement said: “I tried to leave but he said ‘you’re not going anywhere’. He grabbed my neck, I was turning blue.
“He then lifted me up and headbutted me hard to the face, I’m 5ft 2in and six-and-a-half stone and he’s a very big man.”
The next morning Miss
Mellor saw the extent of her facial injuries including two black eyes and a broken nose in a mirror and later called police to report the incident.
The court also heard that Miss Mellor was also the subject of another police report taken on June 20 last year in which she described Bolland, of Budworth Walk, Wilmslow, as ‘having a short fuse and being violent and aggressive’.
The statement concluded ‘he will end up killing someone’,
A pathologist’s post mortem report concluded that the cause of death for Miss Mellor was numerous blows to the face and head and compression to the neck.
Toxicology analysis taken from Bolland shortly after his arrest showed evidence that he had recently consumed both spice and cannabis.
Bolland denies murder and claims somebody else inflicted the fatal injuries to Miss Mellor. Mr Benson read to the jury a police statement from Fay Maylett, Bolland’s mother.
She said that around 2am on August 18, 2019 she had received a series of calls from her son, who was using Miss Mellor’s mobile phone.
She told police the tone of her son’s voice sounded ‘upset’.
She said: “Matthew said ‘I’ve killed Pam, mam believe me she’s dead. I’ve killed her but I didn’t mean to’.
“He said he was going to Handforth station to commit suicide in front of the fast train.”
Mrs Maylett then called 999 and her son was arrested a short time later outside a friend’s address on Weaverham Way, Handforth.
Evidence from the arresting officers read to the court said that when detained Bolland had blood on his hands, face and jacket.
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