Jurors in the trial of a businessman accused of murdering a family of four in their home have been played a harrowing recording of a 999 call made by one of the young victims.
Anxiang Du, 54, is accused of stabbing to death Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer Jifeng 'Jeff' Ding, his wife, Ge 'Helen' Chui, and their two daughters, Xing 'Nancy' 18, and Alice, 12.
Members of the jury of eight women and four men wept at Northampton Crown Court as they heard Nancy Ding's 999 call to police on her sister Alice's mobile phone.
The sound of female screams could be heard on the 20-second call - made on April 29, 2011 at 3.32pm - along with the muffled voice of the operator.
Du denies travelling from his home in Coventry to the Ding's house in Wootton, Northamptonshire, armed with a kitchen knife, to carry out the four murders on the day of Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding.
It is alleged he killed them in "revenge" after a business relationship between the Du family and Ding family "turned sour", and ended with Du owing £88,000 in costs after a lengthy legal battle.
The court heard the four bodies were discovered two days later on May 1, 2011 by police after concerned neighbour Jason Horsley went round to check on the family after not seeing them over the Bank Holiday.
The parents were in the kitchen and their children in an upstairs bedroom
The jury was read a statement by Mr Horsley in which he described seeing a body on the kitchen floor through a window.
The parents' bodies were found in the kitchen and their children upstairs "I saw a pair of legs then I noticed it was blood on the floor," Mr Horsley told police in his statement.
PC John Campbell was the first officer to arrive on the scene.
"Were you able to make out a pair of legs lying on the floor and a dark blot that you concluded was probably blood?", Prosecutor William Harbage QC asked him. "Yes that's right," PC Campbell replied.
A second officer found the bodies of the two girls in an upstairs bedroom of the house in Pioneer Close, Wootton, Northamptonshire.
In a statement read to the court, Pc Eva Cheng said: "There was a young female child laid on the bed with her head on the headrest. She was curled up and facing away from me.
"She was in her pre-teens possibly between 10-12 years old. I could not see her face but I could see a lot of blood on the bed."
The officer went on to describe how she then saw another older female body to the left on the floor.
"She was doubled up in what I can only describe as a prayer position with her upper body slumped and her arms out," she said.
"There was a lot of blood on the carpet. The blood was thick and black in colour."
The officer said she felt "slightly sick" at the sight of the two children and had to "catch her breath".
Post mortem examinations found Mr Ding had been stabbed 23 times and Mrs Ding 13 times. Nancy had 11 stab wounds and Alice four.
The trial continues.
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