Witnesses heard ‘frightened’ girl screaming ‘mummy’ on the night 15-year-old was raped and murdered
Man was also seen with bloodied face near to where teen's body was found, jury hears
A FRIGHTENED girl was heard screaming "mummy" on the night 15-year-old Kayleigh Haywood was raped and murdered, a jury heard.
Stephen Beadman, 29, has admitted to meting out the horrific abuse but is on trial with his neighbour Luke Harlow as they deny false imprisonment.
On the night of the teen's brutal murder witnesses saw a man with a bloodied face near to where her body was found three days later, the court was told.
Kayleigh, from Measham, Leicestershire, was found dead on farmland on November 18 last year.
A witness saw her being pinned down by Beadman near Harlow's home in the nearby village of Ibstock, Leicestershire, on the night of her death.
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Giving evidence on the third day of the trial at Nottingham Crown Court, witnesses Samuel Green and Amy Dearden said they heard a loud scream in the early hours of Sunday November 15.
Mr Green, who lives with Ms Dearden at a property near Ibstock's Sence Valley Forest Park, told the court he looked out of the window for around ten minutes after hearing the shout, but heard nothing else.
Recalling that he went to bed shortly after midnight, Mr Green told the trial: "I was lying there. I can't be 100% sure how long I lay there and then all of a sudden I heard a loud scream, someone screaming 'mummy'.
"I thought it was me dreaming. Then I felt my partner grab my arm and say: 'Did you hear that?' As soon as she said that to me I knew that obviously it wasn't me.
"It sounded like a female to me, and if I'm honest, whoever it was sounded frightened."
After following her partner into the witness box, Ms Dearden said: "I heard a loud scream and it was someone screaming 'mummy'."
Ms Dearden said the scream sounded so close that she thought someone was in her garden, and added: "It was definitely a female.
"I asked Sam if he had heard it. It quite worried me. It sounded like a young child. Sam opened the window and shouted but nobody replied."
Earlier, the jury heard evidence that a motorist and his partner saw a man with blood on the left-hand side of his face, walking along the A447 near Ibstock at about 11am on November 15.
The Crown alleges that the defendants, both of George Avenue, Ibstock, held Kayleigh against her will at Harlow's home between around 9pm on November 14 and 3am on November 15.