A man who killed his girlfriend by bashing her head with a hammer then grabbed a knife and stabbed Bible pages into her lifeless body, court heard Tuesday.

Patrick Barrett, 41, is facing a second-degree murder charge at Ontario Superior Court for allegedly killing his girlfriend Lucita Charles, 28, in May 2010.

Barrett has admitted he killed Charles, but says he didn’t intend to and attempted to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter last week. The Crown rejected his plea.

The grisly killing left Charles’ son Mataeo, 10, who has cerebral palsy, without his sole caregiver. Mateo is now in the care of Safe Haven, a facility for disabled children in Etobicoke.

Det. Sgt. Pauline Gray, the lead homicide detective on the case, described the crime scene Tuesday as she testified.

“There was a multi-coloured blanket lying on her body,” said Gray, adding the blanket and Charles’ head were “fairly saturated with blood.”

Stabbed into Charles’ chest, said Gray, was a black-handled kitchen knife.

“Between the knife and her body were a number of Bible pages,” said Gray. “I could see when the blanket was pulled back that she had egregious injuries to her head.”

Court heard last week part of the Bible passage stabbed in Charles’ body read “that which is crooked cannot be made straight.”

Crown attorney Scott Arnold alleges Barrett intended to kill Charles when he began bludgeoning her with a hammer following an argument about marriage and abortion.

Charles, who had missed her period twice, but wasn’t pregnant, told Barrett she no longer wanted to get married, couldn’t handle caring for another child and would get an abortion if pregnant.

Barrett, a devout Christian, became enraged and “picks up a hammer and carries a hammer back into the bedroom, and he swings it at Lucita, hits her,” Arnold told the jury last week.

“She screams and he hits her in the head over and over and over again, and ends her life right there,” said Arnold, telling the jury “this trial is not going to be a mystery.”

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Arnold added Barrett then fled to Montréal with his 23-year-old mistress and Durham Regional Police arrested him upon his return two days later.

The trial resumes Thursday when Arnold will play Barrett’s interrogation by Toronto Police in which he confesses to killing, but not murdering, Charles.