A neighbour tried to record the sound of a Haverfordwest mum being beaten to death, a jury heard today (Thursday).

Timothy Down became so worried about the “loud, aggressive” noises coming from her flat that he hung his mobile telephone out of his bedroom window in an attempt to record them.

And then he made an electronic note on his mobile that read: “There seems to be some kind of domestic aggression coming from apartment A. Seems to be a male.

"The time is approximately 12.45am. Banging and shouting. Do I go across or call the police. I feel it is better to stay away.”

The prosecution at Swansea crown court say that, unknown to Mr Down, he had been listening to Miss Bradbury’s on-off boyfriend Luke George Jones beating her to death.

Jones, aged 33, of Haven Drive, Milford Haven, denies murdering Miss Bradbury at Flat A, Imperial Court, off the High Street, Haverfordwest, in the early hours of February 22.

Mr Down, who lived in Flat D, said he was woken by the sound of “serious, heavy banging” coming from Flat A.

He said he heard a man say, “I ******* loved you.”

A minute later he heard the same man say, “Now look what you have made me ******* do.”

Paul Lewis QC, prosecuting, asked why he hadn’t telephoned the police.

Mr Down said he rang his father who advised him not to get involved.

Mr Down said his mobile had not picked up the sounds he could hear.

The prosecution claim that Jones, a pipe welder, had been worried about his relationship with Miss Bradbury and just days before her death he had told his doctor that he had difficulty controlling his temper.

The night before she was killed Miss Bradbury had stayed with a friend, Rhiannon Watts.

Miss Bradbury had had sex with Darryl McGuckin, the brother of Miss Watts’ boyfriend Daniel McGuckin.

Miss Watts told the jury she became “angry, very angry” because they had used the bed of one her children and the following morning she contacted Jones via Facebook to tell him Miss Bradbury had slept with another man.

Jones turned up at her home, she said, but looked to her to be more upset than angry.

Cross examined by Chris Clee QC, the barrister leading Jones’ defence team, Miss Watts agreed she had been so angry with Miss Bradbury that she had sent a text message to a friend in which she said she was going to “hammer” her.

But she had not, in fact, hit her.

Miss Watts, a mother of four, said she thought Miss Bradbury had consumed about half a box of diazepam tablets but she could not tell if it had been a box of 24 or 48.

“She was all over the place. Her head was messed up. We were quite wrecked at the time,” she added.

Daniel McGuckin said he and his brother returned to Swansea, early on February 21.

Later that evening he began to exchange “sexy” messages with Miss Bradbury, 28 in total, even though she had slept with his brother the night before.

The messages from Miss Bradbury stopped suddenly at 10.10pm.

“I thought it was a bit strange. I never heard from her again,” he said.

The prosecution claim that Jones killed Miss Bradbury a short while later, because at 2.48am he telephoned for an ambulance and told the operator she was already “freezing cold, her lips are blue.”

Miss Bradbury died from extensive blunt force injuries that included fractures to her neck and a wrist, bleeding in the sack containing her heart and massive bleeding from a cut to her liver.

The jury has heard that after his arrest Jones gave prepared statements to the police in which he said that Miss Bradbury had caused the injuries to herself by falling down.

The trial continues.

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