Former bouncer denies hammer attack on partner

A FORMER nightclub doorman accused of attacking his heavily pregnant girlfriend with a hammer while she was asleep said yesterday she was assaulted in a “terrifying” burglary gone wrong.

Simon Morris, 36, who is 6ft 6in and 15 stone, said he woke in the early hours of 15 August last year to discover his girlfriend Nerys Price was being attacked.

Morris is on trial at Mold Crown Court charged with attempted murder and the attempted destruction of their unborn daughter.

He denies the charges.

The Crown claims Morris bludgeoned Ms Price, 35, in a bid to land £500,000 from her estate and to begin life with a woman he was seeing behind his partner’s back.

Yesterday, Morris told the jury of nine women and three men there were at least two intruders in their home in Calthorpe Drive, Prestatyn.

Saying that he woke at around 4am to hear Ms Price groaning and moaning beside him.

“I looked just over my left shoulder and there was a light on the landing and I saw a silhouette or someone leaving the bedroom.”

Morris, a highways officer for Denbighshire County Council, waited for a few minutes, he said, before going to see if anyone was downstairs.

His partner, a human resources manager, phoned the police from their bedroom. She gave birth to daughter Freya by emergency Caesarean section and hours later underwent surgery to fix two skull fractures.

The prosecution says Morris owed his parents £60,000 and was planning his future with “other woman” Kate Christian.