Telford woman Wendy Walters attacked her boyfriend Barry Evans with a knife and threatened to kill him in a jealous fury just days before he died of stab wounds, a court heard today.

The claim was made by prosecution witness Joanne Davies, who described Mr Evans as “my best mate”.

Walters, 42, of Bembridge, Brookside, denies murdering 45-year-old Mr Evans on July 7 last year.

Mr Evans, a former police cadet of Hurleybrook Way, Leegomery, had a history of self harm and drug abuse.

He bled to death on Walters’s living room floor after being stabbed eight times, with three blows to the back.

The prosecution claims Walters attacked and killed him in a row after she returned from shopping.

Walters told police he stabbed himself in front of her before she dialled 999.

The jury has heard evidence from two pathologists that it would have been virtually impossible for Mr Evans to have stabbed himself in the back with such force that it penetrated bone.

Miss Davies told the jury at Birmingham Crown Court today that she was released from prison on June 28 last year and went to Walters’s flat.

Then Walters walked in. “She was off her face – drugs, drink – and shouting her mouth off at Baz,” Miss Davies said.

“She went into the kitchen and came back with a black handled knife.

“She went to stab him but I jumped and grabbed her and took the knife off her.”

Miss Davies told the court she had given her evidence because it was the truth and not because she had anything against Walters.

The trial continues.