A JURY has heard the accounts two women accused of stabbing another woman gave to police.

Kathryn Llewellyn, 43, of Golwg y Mynydd in Godrergraig, and Teresa Morgan-Peters, 45, of Dolfain in Ystradgynlais, were arrested following the incident on Pen-y-Bryn in Ystradgynlais in the early hours of November 1.

Both denied charges of burglary with intent to inflict GBH on the complainant, and wounding with intent.

Both defendants denied having a bladed article/knife in a public place – referring to a Stanley Knife – while Morgan-Peters denied having a ‘lock knife’ at Pen-y-Bryn on November 1.

Morgan-Peters has pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding, which Llewellyn denies.

Swansea Crown Court heard that Llewellyn told officers she had “never set foot in [the complainant’s] flat”, and repeated in all four police interviews that she was being “set up”.

She was asked where she was on the night of the attack.

“We stayed at Teresa’s as we’d had a drink,” she said, adding that she stayed there all night with her partner Gregory Morgan, and they left at 9am to get breakfast at McDonalds.

Mr Morgan was found not guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm before the trial began.

She said she only found out what happened later on November 1 when a man outside Morgan-Peters’ house told her.

“Are we going to find any of your DNA on any of the items at the scene?,” asked the officers.

“No, 100 per cent,” she said.

“I’m 100 per cent certain I’ve had nothing to do with this woman at all.”

Analysis found three DNA profiles on a plastic bottle at the complainant's flat which it is alleged was used to carry the bleach. One of the profiles was Llewellyn’s.

Five DNA profiles were found on the mask recovered from the complainant’s house – including both defendants and the complainant.

Llewellyn told officers this may have been a mask she tried on at Morgan-Peters’ house, but she did not know how it got to the complainant’s home.

Llewellyn was asked by police about deleted messages on her phone on October 31 and November 1.

She told officers it was to stop her grandson seeing intimate messages between her and her partner, and other men.

The police asked why there were still intimate photographs and messages on her phone, to which Llewellyn said she didn’t know.

“Have you done this to remove all traces of messages about [the complainant] from your phone?,” the officers suggested.

Police found four internet searches for the question-and-answer website Quora on Llewellyn’s phone from around 3am on November 1.

These were: “How long will fingerprints last on a plastic surface”; “How long will fingerprints last on a plastic bag”; “How long do fingerprints last on a plastic bag”; and “How long do fingerprints last on a plastic surface”.

“Were you awake at that time?,” the police asked.

“No. I was asleep,” she said. “Obviously someone’s done it. They don’t just pop up.”

The jury heard eight calls were made from Morgan-Peters’ phone to the complainant’s number between 1.13am and 1.29am.

The complainant described hearing laughter – “like clowns cackling” – from whoever made the call after the first ones had been silent.

Morgan-Peters answered “no comment” at her first two police interviews, but during the third, she told police she had heard a dog outside and was phoning to check if it was the complainant’s.

She said she did not realise she had withheld her number, and then had deleted the call logs on her phone “because of what [Llewellyn] had done”, and that it would look “a bit funny” if the complainant found out she had been calling her before the attack.

Morgan-Peters said she heard Llewellyn “kicking off” that night, and she and her partner left the house.

“No, not at all. 100 per cent not,” said Llewellyn when the police put this to her.

Morgan-Peters said she took her son’s Hallowe’en mask to the complainant’s home as she “didn’t want her to think I’m part of this”.

She said she saw Llewellyn’s partner outside, who said she had gone in to give the complainant “a slap”.

“When I walked in, I stopped dead,” she said. “I noticed she had something in her hand.”

Morgan-Peters told police that after spotting Llewellyn had a knife, she pushed her, allowing the complainant to get away – something the complainant refuted in her evidence.

She said she left Llewellyn and her partner at the front door of her house, and did not call the ambulance or the police after the attack as she “was too scared” what Llewellyn would do to her.

When asked about the craft knives and a lock knife found in her car, Morgan-Peters said: “I’ve got no knives in my car”.

In a statement read out in court, the complainant’s friend, Mandy Moore, said he heard banging on her door just after she’d gone to bed, and recognised the complainant’s voice.

“As I first saw her I realised something serious was wrong,” she said.

“I saw a lot of injuries and blood.”

“She was saying ‘Call the police, call the police’. Someone had broken into her house and tried to kill her and her dog.

“[She] said they were two fat girls, both wearing clown masks.”

She said she could smell bleach on the complainant, and her clothes had become discoloured.

PS Matthew Jenkins, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said he was called to the incident at 1.58am on November 1, and arrived at the Mrs Moore’s house at around 2.30am – by which time ambulance staff were treating the complainant.

The jury also heard from James Moore, a core trainee surgeon at Morriston Hospital, who detailed the injuries the complainant suffered to her face, neck, arm, thumb, back and thigh.

David Leathley, representing Llewellyn, asked Dyfed-Powys Police's officer in the case Leah Williams whether his client had any dog bites on her leg when she was arrested.

“If we had that evidence we would’ve put it forward,” said officer Williams.

Nicola Powell said the police were able to place Llewellyn at the scene because of the evidence given in interview by her client, Morgan-Peters.

The trial continues.