CCTV shows woman kissing and cuddling murder suspect in 'rough sex' case

Footage captures Richard Bailey and Charlotte Teeling just hours before her death

Charlotte Teeling was killed after allegedly being strangled to death in Birmingham (Facebook)

Footage of a man kissing and cuddling a mother-of-three he is accused of murdering before scattering pornography near her body has been shown to jurors.

CCTV also captured Charlotte Teeling and Richard Bailey just hours before her death holding hands on the steps of Birmingham's New Street Station, early in the morning of 23 February.

Bailey, 41, denies murder, claiming his 33-year-old victim died accidentally during "rough sex" after asking to be choked at his flat in the city.

​Earlier that night Teeling, from Worcester, had been in the city's Priva nightclub dancing alone and was "flirty" with one of the bouncers, Birmingham Crown Court heard on Wednesday.

Junior Thompson, a doorman at the club, said she and a colleague had walked with her back to a plaza near the Bullring shopping centre after closing time.

He said: "Charlotte started walking with us, she was a bit flirty with me and asked if she could come back to my place."

He told the jury he rebuffed Teeling, adding he was "seeing someone at the time", gave her hug and then left her to make her way back to the nearby train station.

But at 6.14am, in a city shop, she bumped into Bailey - who was not previously known to her - with CCTV showing them appearing to chat and a few minutes later hug one another.

They then spent more than 15 minutes near an entryway to the train station, holding hands and kissing, more camera footage showed.

Walking to a drop-and-go parking area, the two then picked up a cab driven by Abid Bashir, who dropped them at an ATM.

The taxi driver said: "I saw her kissing him on the lips at the cashpoint."

They asked to be dropped at an address, which Mr Bashir told jurors he assumed was to pick up "drugs", before he then parked outside Bailey's flat in Kingstanding.

He added that Teeling gave him a CD to play in the car, but he did not recall anything either Bailey or she had talked about.

Prosecuting QC Jonas Hankin asked: "What impression did you form of her?"

Mr Bashir said: "They went to that location for whatever they were picking up and once they'd done that she seemed less anxious, happier, her mood changed, and she became more happy."

After getting out of the car, Teeling got her CD back, with CCTV from a neighbour's home showing her follow Bailey into his flat.

Opening the case on Tuesday, Mr Hankin said injuries to Teeling's neck, mouth and a bone fracture near the base of her tongue suggested significant force had been used.

Mr Hankin told the jury "The pathologist has concluded that her death was most likely the result of forceful compression of the neck.

"The prosecution case is that while having penetrative intercourse with Charlotte, whether with her consent or without, the defendant caused her death by strangling her and smothering her.

"When he did that he did that deliberately, intending at least to cause really serious harm."

After killing Teeling, Bailey is alleged to have used her bank card and travelled to Coventry, where prosecutors claimed he "wormed his way" back into the life of a former partner.

The trial continues.

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