Victim found lying 'as if in coffin'

The neighbour of a radio presenter found dead in her kitchen has said she was positioned "as if she was in a coffin".

Maureen Tripovic rushed into Nasim Jamil's flat when the dead woman's daughter banged on her door screaming and shouting for help. Inside the flat, Miss Tripovic, 46, found her neighbour lying with her arms by her side, legs together and eyes open, with "drag marks" of blood on the washing machine behind her.

Khalid Sarwar, 29, denies murdering Mrs Jamil at her flat at Byres Road in the West End of Glasgow on 9 December last year.

At the High Court in Glasgow yesterday Miss Tripovic said Mrs Jamil's daughter Nazia Jamil, 36, came to her door at about 7:45pm on 9 December.

Choking back tears, she told the court: "She was screaming, she was banging on the door with her hands, screaming for me, shouting 'Maureen, come please', she just would not stop screaming my name. It's indescribable the pain that I heard from her."

Supermarket cashier Miss Tripovic, 46, added: "I ran into the kitchen and I saw her mum lying there. When I looked at her and saw all the blood and her eyes were opened, I knew she was away.

"Her head was at the washing machine and there was a dragging mark down the washing machine as if she had been pulled. She looked as if she was placed. Her arms down her sides, her legs together. She looked as if she was in a coffin and her eyes were open."

Mrs Jamil was a presenter on Asian radio station Awaz FM. The trial continues.