A MOTHER accused of murdering her fiance described in court the moment she found he had been stabbed at a drink and drug-fuelled New Year’s Eve party.

Hannah Sindrey, 24, and Kelly Blackwell, 26, are accused of stabbing 31-yearold Paul Fletcher to death at a home in Worcester Drive, Rayleigh, in the early hours of January 1.

Both women deny the charges and blame each other for Mr Fletcher’s death.

Yesterday Sindrey told Basildon Crown Court that the row began when Mr Fletcher took the phone of her co-defendant.

She said: “I saw Kelly with a knife and she was being violent towards Paul Fletcher and was shouting in his face.

“I grabbed it from her and stuck it into the worktop, and it stood upright in the kitchen side. She had it in her left hand and I didn’t see it touch him.

“I thought she might hurt him, I went towards the balcony to scream for help and then I heard he had collapsed.

I turn round and saw him laying on the floor.

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“Kelly was knelt down screaming in his face and I thought he’d had a seizure and then I screamed from the balcony for help.

“I knelt down and could feel the blood and then I saw the wound and blood and pressed down to try stop the bleeding.”

Sindrey told the court she had taken amphetamine, known as speed, during the day, and had been drinking vodka and cranberry that evening while being pregnant.

She said Blackwell and Mr Fletcher had taken cocaine together in the home on New Year’s Eve.

Crying in the witness box in the court, she added: “Earlier in the evening, Kelly had Paul up against a wall and he was scared and worried.

“She was attacking him and shouting pure abuse in his face. I was trying to get Paul away from her but I couldn’t move him. He wasn’t saying anything.

“I had drunk between five and 10 cans of vodka cranberry but stopped doing the cocaine when I found out I was pregnant.”

On Wednesday Sindrey told the court jury that Mr Fletcher had beat her on a few occasions when she was pregnant.

The trial continues.