A woman accused of staging a robbery as a guise for killing her mother two decades ago called triple-zero minutes after the alleged murder, sobbing and hyperventilating.
Isabela Carolina Camelo-Gomez, now 47, has pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court to murdering Irene Jones on November 2, 2001, at her Sydney home.
Prosecutors allege Camelo-Gomez invented the story about an intruder after she strangled and stabbed her 56-year-old mother in the kitchen.
The jury was on Wednesday played two triple-zero calls made from the home of Camelo-Gomez's neighbours, after she told them she had got out of the shower to be attacked by a man wearing a stocking over his face.
"(He was) going through my stuff," Camelo-Gomez can be heard saying on the call.
"I screamed and he lunged at me and started chasing me with a chord."
Camelo-Gomez, then 27, can be heard sobbing and breathing heavily as the operator asks her questions.
She says she is hurt, but does not need an ambulance.
"I can't find my mum," she tells them.
In a second call eight minutes later, a crying Camelo-Gomez can be heard telling police to hurry.
The court earlier heard from Camelo-Gomez's then neighbour, Tuyet Van Phu, who was 18 at the time of the alleged murder.
Ms Van Phu told the court Camelo-Gomez - who was then named Megan Jones - had turned up at her door of the home she shared with her parents and brother, clad in ripped pyjamas and crying.
Speaking quickly, Camelo-Gomez said: "There's a man in my house. There's a man in my house."
After resisting because she wanted to go and look for her mother, Camelo-Gomez was convinced to come inside and Ms Van Phu called triple-zero.
As Camelo-Gomez spoke to the operator, Ms Van Phu said she noticed her pyjama shirt was ripped at the back and her hair was wet.
Although Camelo-Gomez had said the intruder had choked her with a chord on the throat, Ms Van Phu told the court she did not see any injuries.
Under cross examination by Ms Camelo-Gomez' lawyer, Belinda Rigg, she admitted she may not have seen the injuries as she was short-sighted.
"You said to the police ... in November of 2001: 'I did not notice if Megan was injured in any way because I am short-sighted'?"
"Yes," Ms Van Phu replied.
The crown prosecutors have argued Camelo-Gomez was driven to murder because she was obsessed with a man her mother hated and believed she was an obstacle to their relationship.
The trial continues before Justice Helen Wilson.
