A young mum was strangled in bed with a skipping rope next to her sleeping baby's cot, a court heard.
N'Taya Elliott-Cleverley 's body was found at her Wavertree home in the early hours of Friday, January 29 last year.
Prosecutors allege the 20-year-old suffered a "brutal, merciless and sustained attack" at the hands of the father of her daughter.