A Sydney woman sobbed while telling police that she had been choked from behind by an intruder who allegedly murdered her mother.
Isabela Carolina Camelo-Gomez had just finished showering on the evening of November 2, 2001.
"I walked out and there's a guy right in front of me," she said two days later in the police interview played before her jury on Wednesday.
"I didn't know what to do, I couldn't breathe, I froze, and I turned and something came over my neck (and) I was pulled back."
The 47-year-old has pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to murdering her mother Irene Jones at her Lansvale home.
The pair had returned home from her mother's birthday dinner when the then- 27-year-old known as Megan Jones at the time is accused of staging a break-in.
Prosecutors allege the daughter strangled her mother with a ligature and stabbed the 56-year-old in her kitchen, believing she was an obstacle in her relationship with Carlos Camelo-Gomez.
Prosecutor David Scully argued that the accused had been obsessed with the married man her mother hated, and wanted to financially support him after she inherited her mother's house.
And she wanted to please him by having a "sham marriage" with his brother Cesar to secure him Australian residency.
In her police interview the teary woman describes leaving her mother searching in the garage to fill up her car with cheap petrol.
Upon returning she spent up to half-an-hour showering and getting changed into her "jarmies" while her mother watched television in her nightie.
After she left the bathroom Camelo-Gomez said she was accosted by a random man and was punched, kicked and pushed onto a mattress.
"He pulled my pants down and put his hand down there," she said.
Shaking and screaming she then ran to the neighbours thinking her mother might be there, not knowing where she was.
"I thought she may have run."
Camelo-Gomez denied her friendship with Carlos Camelo-Gomez had escalated into romance, but said they spoke most days and that she worried about his finances.
When he lived with the Joneses, Camelo-Gomez said her mother liked him and she would often come home to them laughing about something.
Camelo-Gomez said she met up with him on the day her mother was murdered for a Hungry Jack's lunch.
"He said tell your mum I'll see her soon," she said.
Defence lawyer Belinda Rigg SC says her client didn't begin a relationship with Carlos Camelo-Gomez until months after the murder and suggested he might actually be responsible for the killing.
He has severe amnesia after a car crash and cannot give evidence.
In an interview with police the day after the murder, he can be heard telling police he and Ms Jones were just friends.
The trial continues.
