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This is the harrowing 999 call made by Alice Ruggles’ distressed flatmate when she discovered her body in their blood-soaked bathroom .

Maxine McGill made the horrific discovery of Alice with her throat cut from ear to ear at their flat in Bensham , Gateshead.

She rang for help and the chilling horror of what she could see can be heard in her voice as she says “Alice, Alice, Alice” and realises she is dead while on the phone to the emergency services.

Maxine said during the trial Trimaan Dhillon had been “controlling, manipulative and possessive” with Alice, who she was worried he would kill her.

She told the court the 24-year-old was left “frozen in fear” after Dhillon, known as Harry, turned up one night and left Ferrero Rocher and flowers on her outside window sill.

On October 12, Maxine was going to her boyfriend’s home in Durham but called home after work for her mobile phone.

She found the flat locked and couldn’t get any response from Alice so she climbed through a window. As she looked at her phone, she noticed Alice lying on the bathroom floor.

“It stopped me in my tracks, I just ran to her,” she said.

“The first thing I noticed was the amount of blood everywhere.

“For a split second I thought she’d fallen and hurt her head.

“The amount of blood that was there, the position Alice was lying in. I knew it had not been a fall.

“I knew when I seen her she was dead.”

Maxine, originally from Glasgow, first met Alice working at Sky, and Alice moved into her flat in Bensham, Gateshead, last June.

She told jurors: “We got on very well. She was different from myself but had the most vibrant personality.”

Asked about Dhillon, she said: “He tried too hard, he was overly nice, he al­­most creeped me out.”

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When quiz­zed about Dhillon and Alice’s relationship, Maxine said: “It was controlling, manipulative, possessive.”

Maxine said Alice discovered Dhillon had been messaging other women and ended the relationship. Asked how he reacted, she said: “Sometimes he seemed really upset, crying, sad. Other times it was the opposite end of the scale – aggressive, possessive.”

“She became introvert, visibly shaking, anxiety, skinny, she lost a lot of weight, she was pale. She said she was frightened of him, she was scared of him.”

Fighting back tears, she added: “She said to me she thinks Harry was going to kill her.”