The boyfriend of Rachel Barraclough has told a murder trial how he had sex with another girl the day she was killed.

Carl Hughes took to the witness stand today on the third day of the trial in which his father Stephen Hughes, 46, has denied murdering the 18-year-old Bradford girl whose body was found on waste land near the River Calder in Wakefield. She had been knifed to death in a sexually-motivated attack.

Carl, 21, admitted he was seeing another girl called Diane while he was going out with Rachel.

And on the afternoon of Friday September 5, last year, he said he had sex with Diane in a park after a drinking binge.

But shortly into his evidence, the court had to retire after Carl, who lives with his parents Stephen and Irene Hughes in Stanley Street, Wakefield, said he felt sick. The court resumed after a 15 minute break.

Carl told the court he had been drinking with his father in a pub and met Diane. They drank most of a bottle of cider with her.

"With me being a bit beside myself, we started kissing and we ended up having sex in the park," he said.

He added Diane was sick and "in a bit of a mood" and said she was going home. He put her on the bus and then went home, arriving at 7pm.

Carl told how he met Rachel, of Bankfoot, Bradford at Silks nightclub in Bradford on January 11, 1997.

Initially, he said, the relationship was "quite strong" and that he and Rachel spoke on the phone for two to three hours at a time, several times a week. "It was love at first sight," he said.

Carl explained how he and Rachel had often walked by the River Calder where they also made love. But later in the year he met a girl called Diane after starting an electronics course.

He said his father was critical of what he was doing.

Earlier the jury heard from Pathologist Dr Guy Rutty, who said Rachel's body was covered in bruises even before she died.

The trial continues.

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