A man told a 999 call handler he had been "battered s***less" before his housemates claimed he had drowned in the bath after finding his dead body, a murder trial has heard.
Cheryl O'Callaghan allegedly beat Adrian Swift with a baseball bat and pushed him down the stairs during an assault at their home on Bishopsgate Street in Wavertree. 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.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Friday, 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 a jury 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.
