A woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend in the heart told police "it was just a lovers' tiff".
Emma Walsh is currently standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with murdering her partner Gary Morgan at her home on Lavan Close in Everton. He was knifed in the chest after returning from a visit to the pub on the evening of April 10 this year.
The defendant was not present on the fifth day of evidence as she was "not feeling well". In her absence, the jury was read transcripts of her interviews with police following her arrest for Mr Morgan's murder.
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Walsh was first spoken to by detectives at Wavertree Road Police Station on the afternoon of April 11. She told the officers: "We went to watch the match in the Belmont pub with his mate, Lee Taylor, got a bit drunk.
"We had few bits of drugs, we come back home and then it just started escalating cos he gets mouthy and being pushy and stuff. Then he smashed me speaker.
"Then I pushed, he fell, we’ve lay down and I’ve noticed he’s been bleeding on one side here. So we’ve took his jumper off, then after that he was just turning all purple and that.
"So I’ve rang the ambulance and they said just keep pressing on his chest. So I did, and all the police come and I got arrested."
Walsh claimed that she had seen people she knew while in the pub and Mr Morgan had "started saying you like him, you've been with him". Once they had returned to the bungalow, where she lived with her dad, she alleged he had "come at me, scratched all my face" and he had suffered the wound after falling onto a plastic shard of the broken bluetooth speaker.
Of the pub trip, during which they watched Liverpool FC's game with Manchester City and stayed for karaoke, the 31-year-old said: "We were singing and dancing. I've known people and he's a jealous person.
"He's paranoid sometimes. 'I'd done this and I'm doing that, I've s***ged him', that's all I get half the time.
"It's always when we drink. When we haven't had a drink we're as happy as Larry - when we have a drink or two with cocaine and that and weed, it sends your head oblivious."
In a second interview shortly after 9.30am the following day, Walsh gave more details on Mr Morgan's final day. They had stayed at his mum's in Prescot the night before, left at around 10am and eaten at McDonald's before returning to Lavan Close.
The deceased had then been "making pallets with me dad in the back garden" while she did chores. The couple and Mr Morgan's friend Mr Taylor then went to the chop to buy "ciggies and a pack of Stella", drank the cans then left for the Belmont - picking up cocaine en route.
Walsh said: "Everyone was happy because we drawed. We thought we were gonna get beat."
She added that there had been no arguments on the walk home shortly after 10pm, but back at home "he started going on at me". Walsh told the officers: "We've had a fight, fisticuffs."
The detectives then informed her of the results of Mr Morgan's post-mortem investigation, which concluded that his death had been caused by a bloodstained knife found in the sink and not a broken piece of plastic. She replied: "Oh no, it wasn't a knife.
"Because how can I get into the kitchen to get a knife? I was there when he fell."
Walsh then asked to speak to her solicitor, and after a conference lasting around half an hour confessed: "I did do it yeah. Just domestic abuse, he tried to grab me, just hostile.
"We’ve had a few drinks at home, we went to the pub, we got back home. He smashed me speaker, he started getting hostile, he’s pushed me, I’ve pushed him, so I went into the kitchen just like to maybe get out the way and then he’s come in and started grabbing me.
"He’s screaming in my face pushing me. So I picked up a knife, but he’s had hold of me so I only hit him that side and then we both took the jumper off.
"Then he started coming at me speaking, all verbal, shouting, being abusive to me and then he just started coming at me, grabbing me, pushing me. He always grabs me by the throat and stuff.
"I’ve been here a few times through domestic violence and stuff. I’ve got pictures on me phone of a bust nose, black eyes but this time it just went too far."
When asked why she had changed her story, Walsh replied "just scared". She added: "He smashed me speaker.
"I said 'what you doing that for?'. He said 'you deserve it you little s**g'.
"I went in the kitchen to try and calm the situation. He started attacking me.
"He grabbed me by the throat, he's had me by the back door in the corner.
"I picked the knife up and hit him. He's took his jumper off, I've put it in the wash.
"We've started to argue more and more. I just wanted him off me and to leave me alone - it was just a lover's tiff.
"I didn't stab him. I was just warning him"
When asked what would have happened if she had not armed herself with the knife, Walsh said: "He wouldn't be dead. I probably would have been."
She alleged that Mr Morgan - who earlier that day had changed his Facebook profile picture from one of him and his girlfriend to a photo of only himself - had grabbed her by the throat during the altercation, adding: "I grabbed it when he had hold of me, the knife was there. I told him to get off me, so I picked up the knife.
"I was scared. What if he was choking me like he was?"
Walsh said she could not breathe, and "the whole knife has gone in, 2cm, no more". She stated he reacted by saying "what are you doing that for?" and said of her final account "this one's the truth".
The killer said she had suffered a "bust nose and fractured cheekbone" at Mr Morgan's hands previously, but had not sought hospital treatment for these injuries. The detectives asked: "Did you fear for you life?"
Walsh told them "sometimes yeah". When asked "on the 11th did you fear for your life?", she responded: "Yeah, but I took his then."
When quizzed on "what her intention had been", she said: "Just to get him off, what reason would I have to stab him? I wouldn't go and stab him intentionally would I?"
Walsh denies one count of murder. The trial continues, and will resume on Monday.
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