A desperate 999 call made after a Bradford University student was brutally killed has been played to a murder-trial jury.
Witness Gavin Stolarczyk relived the six-minute plea for help after fellow student Tony Ho was found with his throat cut.
Moments earlier, law student Gavin had fled from the house in Grantham Road, Great Horton, Bradford, that he shared with his girlfriend, Sally Ho, 22, and her brother, Tony.
All three students had been subjected to an ordeal of terror, violence and torture in their university accommodation, the Court was told.
Tony, 19, who was studying chemistry and forensic science, was found dead from multiple stab wounds in his sister’s bedroom.
He had a wire round his neck and his throat had been cut.
Reaben Kareem, 20, of Coal Pool, Walsall, West Midlands, and Jwanru Osman, 20, of Northolt, Middlesex, deny murdering him on Friday, January 22.
Kareem pleads guilty to wounding Sally Ho and Gavin Stolarczyk with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Osman denies those charges.
Both admit conspiracy to rob.
It is alleged that the crimes were based on the horror film Hostel and that they were carried out after Kareem ran up gambling debts.
The jury has heard that Tony and Sally, whose parents are from Hong Kong, received substantial financial support from them as they studied.
On his second day of giving evidence at Bradford Crown Court yesterday, Gavin, 30, said Osman was armed at various times with a meat cleaver, a kitchen knife and a wheel wrench.
Gavin said he was bound with electrical cord and gagged with parcel tape after he was stabbed with a knife in his left side.
A bottle was smashed over Sally’s head and she was bound, gagged and locked in a cellar in the house, the jury has heard.
Gavin said he was left face-down on a settee, bound with electrical cord. His wound was hurting and he was getting severe cramps.
He freed himself and Sally and then armed himself with metal pole in case the attackers were still in the house.
There was blood on the door to Sally’s ground-floor bedroom. She went in and discovered the body of her brother.
The hushed courtroom heard Sally crying in the background during the 999 call made from a neighbour’s house.
The trial continues.
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