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| Pregnant woman 'shot dead in row' | |
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| A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a pregnant woman outside her home in south-west London. | A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a pregnant woman outside her home in south-west London. |
| Krystal Hart, 22, was three months pregnant when she was shot twice in the head in Belleville Road, Battersea, last April, the Old Bailey heard. | |
| Thomas Hughes shot her after a dispute between Miss Hart and his girlfriend, who was her neighbour, the court heard. | |
| Mr Hughes, 40, from Stonells Road, Battersea, denies murder and having a firearm with intent to endanger life. | Mr Hughes, 40, from Stonells Road, Battersea, denies murder and having a firearm with intent to endanger life. |
| The court heard that Miss Hart had been involved in a long-running dispute with neighbour Angie Brewer at the time of the incident. | |
| Miss Brewer was about to be made the subject of an anti-social behaviour order and the two women were due return to court six days later. | |
| Prosecuting, Aftab Jafferjee said Miss Brewer had been described as "the proverbial neighbour from hell". | |
| 'Furious obsession' | |
| Hughes and Miss Hart's boyfriend David Siveter had largely kept out of the dispute until Hughes parked his car in front of Miss Hart's home on 6 April 2007, the court heard. | |
| Mr Siveter wrote down the car's number plate, a move which Hughes took to be a slight on him, said Mr Jafferjee. | |
| "David Siveter had dared, after an earlier exchange, to have written down his car number plate and that turned into a dangerous, instant, furious obsession," Mr Jafferjee said. | |
| Hughes subsequently collected a gun and knocked on Miss Hart's door, shouting for Mr Siveter. | |
| The court heard that Miss Brewer later told police: "Finally Krystal opened the door. He held the gun to her head and she looked at me pleading. | |
| "He shot her. He aimed the gun at my stomach and I screamed." | |
| Mr Jafferjee said Miss Brewer had been cleared of criminal involvement in the incident. The trial continues. |