Happy teenager Rachel Barraclough spent her last hours excited at the thought of meeting the boyfriend she loved, a jury heard today.

But she never kept the date with her lover Carl Hughes, the Court was told.

Instead she was lured from a bus station by his father and taken to wasteland where she was knifed to death, it was alleged.

At the Leeds Crown Court trial where Stephen Hughes, 46, of Stanley Street, Wakefield, denies murdering Rachel of Carr Bottom Road, Bankfoot, Bradford, the jury heard a statement from her sister Jayne who said she had been excited by a phone call during the evening.

She said: "Rachel had a big smile on her face and she was saying 'yes, yes' as someone spoke to her. I could hear a male voice on the end of the phone and the person said '9pm' and she said '9pm'. My dad said where she was going and she said 'Out'. My mum said 'With Sonia?' and she said 'No'."

Rachel told her father she was going to her boyfriend Carl's house and started getting ready. Jayne said while Rachel waited for her taxi to Bradford interchange she saw Rachel was wearing a red blouse, black satin skirt, black shoes and her best coat. "I thought she looked really nice and she had made an effort to look really nice and had done her hair differently."

Earlier that day Rachel, her parents, sister and new baby had visited their grandma earlier in the day in Wibsey. When they returned Rachel's mother cooked tea while her dad listened to a Bradford City game on the radio.

The prosecution says that within hours of the happy domestic scene Rachel was knifed to death by her boyfriend's father.

The court was told how Rachel and Carl had had a fierce argument during the previous weekend. It resulted in a black eye and bruises for Rachel.

Yesterday, on the first day of the trial, the prosecution alleged Hughes had rung Rachel to say he would meet her off the bus if she came to Wakefield.

Prosecution barrister Paul Worsley QC told how several CCTV cameras showed Hughes meeting Rachel off the 9.15pm Bradford bus on September 5 last year, and walking through Wakefield.

The last picture shows them walking towards the murder scene at 9.27pm.

Hughes is spotted by the same camera walking on his own in the opposite direction at 11.24pm.

Rachel's mutilated body was discovered by three walkers on wasteland next to the River Calder in Wakefield.

She suffered 17 injuries in all including cuts to her hands which showed she tried to fight off her attacker.

Police believe the weapon used was a knife, about 7cm long, which has never been recovered.

There was evidence of a sex attack, but not enough to carry out DNA tests.

The case continues.

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