A BIRMINGHAM man accused of stabbing his pregnant girlfriend to death in her Redditch home has gone on trial at Worcester Crown Court for murder.

Akeel Hussain is alleged to have attacked 21-year-old Kirsty Wright with a kitchen knife and left her in a pool of blood on the conservatory floor in Evesham Road.

Hussain, aged 29, of Pembroke Croft, Hall Green, pleads not guilty and the trial is expected to last eight days.

Prosecutor Paul Cooper said several relatives lived in the house in March this year. Kirsty had been in a relationship with Hussain for some months and was 13 weeks pregnant when she was killed.

She had been worried about his drug-taking, which began with cannabis and escalated to cocaine. This made him act like a zombie, causing him to mumble and unable to carry out ordinary tasks like using the telephone.

The house was covered by three cameras in a CCTV system and the jury was shown film of an unknown man apparently delivering drugs at night.

On March 14, Hussain made several calls to the police. Officers could hear hear Kirsty talking in the background about him taking cocaine but she did not seem unduly worried. There was no sign of a disturbance when officers visited the property and everything was calm.

Hussain decided to call a taxi but the driver, a friend of his, said he appeared to be drunk and "off his head". He seemed to have been taking cooaine.

A young relative returned to the house and found Kirsty lying in a pool of blood with her two-year-old son nearby. Hussain was also covered in blood and looked wide-eyed and shocked. Police had to break their way in by smashing glass.

Hussain went to the cloakroom either to have another snort of cocaine or get rid of the drug in the toilet, said Mr Cooper. When he was arrested, he tried to escape from an officer despite being handcuffed.

Mr Cooper said Kirsty had a deep wound to the neck as well as numerous cuts to all parts of her body. She was taken to the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch but later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham where she died a few hours later.

Several blood-stained knives had been found at the house, including one that had broken in half.

When Hussain was taken to Kidderminster, he asked if it was a real police station and if they were genuine officers.

The trial continues.