Tarnjeet Riaz: Man ‘might have slept’ as partner died at bedside

Mr Bailey added the prosecution’s case was that Mr Sidpara inflicted many or most of the injuries to Ms Riaz “while she was unconscious or helpless”.

“Once he’d inflicted those injuries, he might even have gone to sleep while she died on the floor on the side of his bed in the small hours of morning of Monday 6 May,” Mr Bailey added.

The prosecution said Ms Riaz was dead by the time Mr Sidpara called for an ambulance “at around lunchtime”.

During the 999 phone call, Mr Sidpara was told how to give Ms Riaz CPR, which had failed.

Mr Bailey told the jury the CPR had never succeeded because “by the time Mr Sidpara had called 999, she was already cold and stiff and her jaw locked shut”.

Mr Sidpara told the call handler she had fallen over while drunk and suffered injuries that had caused her to bleed, the jury heard.

However, Mr Bailey said the prosecution’s case was that Ms Riaz’s injuries were caused by “sustained, persistent, deliberate, and intentional application of severe force”.