A younger girl feared for her life earlier than she killed her girlfriend with a horse figurine and reduce her physique into two items, jurors have heard.
Anna Podedworna, 40, is on trial at Derby Crown Court, charged with the homicide of Izabela Zablocka greater than 15 years in the past.
The pair have been in a sexual relationship and shared a terraced home in Normanton, Derby.
They had moved from Poland to the UK and labored at Cranberry Foods, a poultry manufacturing facility in Scropton.
Ms Zablocka, 30, stopped contacting her household in August 2010, the court docket heard on Tuesday.
Giving proof, Podedworna advised the jury that Ms Zablocka was “angry” on the day of her dying and requested why Podedworna had come residence late from work.
The defendant alleged that her former companion, who would recurrently drink alcohol, grabbed her, pressed her up towards the wall and strangled her till she discovered it “difficult” to breathe.
Defence barrister Clive Stockwell KC requested Podedworna: “What were you thinking at the time?”
Podedworna replied: “That she was going to kill me,” and added that she was “terrified”.
She thought “that was the end … that she would kill me,” she stated, including that she tried to push Ms Zablocka away.
The defendant advised the court docket that Ms Zablocka had held her by the neck and threatened to kill her two or three weeks earlier than the deadly harm.
She advised the court docket: “At that time I was scared to be around the house … I was scared of speaking to her because I did not know what was going on.”
Speaking concerning the day Ms Zablocka died, Podedworna advised the jury she wished her “to leave me alone, to let me go”.
Podedworna advised the court docket that she tried to seize Ms Zablocka’s neck earlier than she received maintain of a figurine of a horse from a window and hit her with it.
She stated: “I checked her pulse on the neck. I was trying to resuscitate her.”
Podedworna denied that she wished to harm Ms Zablocka.
Asked why she didn’t name the police or an ambulance when she couldn’t discover a pulse, the defendant stated she had “no witness” and no one would consider she was defending herself.
She added that she thought she would “go to prison for the rest of my life”.
Podedworna stated: “I was just terrified, I felt fear. I thought, ‘I will bury her’. I took the decision I would bury her in the garden.
“I wanted to pick her up whole. I just did not have the strength to pick her up. I had an idea to cut her down. It seemed the only way … to cut her into two.”
The trial beforehand heard that Podedworna was a talented butcher whose work concerned “skinning, deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife”.
Podedworna put Ms Zablocka, who was the mom of a younger daughter on the time, in plastic bin luggage and buried her in a gap within the backyard, the court docket heard.
Asked how she felt doing this, the defendant replied: “That I’m some type of a monster.”
Podedworna, of Boyer Street, Derby, advised the jury that she argued with Ms Zablocka, typically over cash or jealousy, and that on one event whereas they have been residing in Poland, her companion gave her a black eye.
Ms Zablocka’s daughter beforehand advised the court docket that she remembers Podedworna chasing her mom with a knife in Poland, which the defendant denied.
Podedworna has pleaded not responsible to homicide, stopping a lawful burial and perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues.
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