The day earlier than Ellie Value was discovered useless in her Melbourne condo she spent the day along with her on-off boyfriend Ricardo Barbaro.
They made a video name to Value's mom and each visited the GP for a medical appointment.
However earlier than the solar rose the subsequent morning, Barbaro had stabbed the 26-year-old six instances, together with a big minimize throughout her throat, prosecutors allege.
He then allegedly acquired into her Mercedes Benz and fled.
Barbaro has denied he killed Value and confronted the primary day of a trial in entrance of 14 jurors on Tuesday.
Value's physique was discovered on Could 4, 2020, in a blood-soaked Park Road, South Melbourne, flat.
Police discovered her useless on the ground of her bed room throughout a welfare examine, after her mom Tracey Gangell grew to become fearful her daughter had not returned her calls.
Following an interstate police manhunt, Barbaro was arrested 10 days later in NSW.
Gangell instructed the jury she spoke to her daughter on April 28, the day earlier than it is alleged Barbaro killed her, on a Fb video name. Barbaro was current in the course of the 12-minute name.
"Only a regular dialog. She appeared okay," she mentioned.
That was the final time she spoke to Value. Within the following days she despatched a number of textual content messages and tried calling, however didn't hear again.
"Should you do not ring me tomorrow, I am calling the police," one in every of Gangell's closing texts to her daughter mentioned.
She known as triple zero on Could 4.
Police discovered Value with six stab wounds, together with an 8cm lengthy minimize throughout her neck and a 7cm deep minimize to her again, prosecutor Patrick Bourke instructed the jury.
He alleged Barbaro's DNA was present in blood stains throughout the condo, together with on the backside of the steps, and his finger print discovered on a mirror in her bed room.
"His intention was to kill her or to trigger her actually critical damage," Bourke mentioned.
He alleged after Barbaro stabbed Value, within the early hours of April 29, he acquired into her Mercedes Benz and left the condo about 4.30am.
The prosecutor mentioned Barbaro was seen on CCTV assembly up along with his father, Joe Barbaro, in Williamstown later that morning.
The daddy and son had been later seen in Diggers Relaxation, the place Bourke alleged they deserted the Mercedes.
He mentioned there was a historical past of home violence between Barbaro and Value, who had been relationship on and off from 2019 till she died.
Gangell mentioned Value, who was a single mom, would usually go to her household in Tasmania.
On one such journey in March 2020, Gangell mentioned her daughter instructed her she deliberate to return residence to Tasmania to remain and he or she would not return to Melbourne "till Rick was out of her life".
Barbaro's barrister Rishi Nathwani mentioned his shopper was not the final individual to see Value alive, and questioned different folks she could have met as an unique dancer.
"Have been there some other individuals who she upset...Who needed to hurt her?" he mentioned.
The trial earlier than Justice Lex Lasry continues.
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