This is the woman accused of murdering her flatmate by beating him with a baseball bat and pushing him down the stairs.
Adrian Swift told a 999 call handler he had been "battered s***less" by Cheryl O'Callaghan before his housemates claimed he had drowned in the bath after finding his dead body, Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday. Despite suffering severe injuries during the incident, he discharged himself from hospital hours before he died aged 57 - after which she and two other flatmates told police that they had discovered him drowned in the bathtub.
O'Callaghan went on trial yesterday accused of his murder. Jurors were told that Mr Swift had "led a life afflicted by addictions to alcohol and drugs" and by the time of his death was "frail, unwell and vulnerable". Alex Leach KC, prosecuting, told the panel of six men and six women that in March last year he had been living at the address with O’Callaghan and her co-defendants Adam Oldland and Steven Hardaker.
