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WINNIPEG — Five months before she was brutally beaten to death in the rough North End Winnipeg neighbourhood, Selena Keeper was denied a protection order against her former boyfriend — the same man now accused of killing her.

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The 20-year-old spoke by phone May 19 to a justice of the peace based in Brandon, Man., and alleged in a soft, matter-of-fact voice that she had been hit, kicked and beaten regularly by Ray William Everett.

Everett, 20, was charged last week with second-degree murder when Keeper died after an assault outside a home.

In a recording of the May 19 hearing, Keeper tells justice of the peace Debra Motuz that she was regularly beaten during a two-year relationship with Everett, even while she was pregnant with the couple’s child.

“He would always kick me to the corners and try and kick my tummy. He would punch me. It was like an everyday routine.”

The couple broke up in 2014, but Everett continued to seek her out, Keeper said. Last December, when the two were drinking together, she was assaulted and police were called, she said.