It only lasted a couple of seconds with no words shouted and I didn't take much notice of it and carried on reading my book 'The scream seemed to have come from the other side of High Street East. It was a piercing scream I took to be a girl. She told the court in a statement: 'I heard the sound of someone screaming. 'We quickened our step and caught our buses home.'Ĭarol Osbourne, said she heard Nikki's screams from her own home. I thought it could have been the whooshing of the wind, but it was a still night. 'I said 'listen to that' to the others and they said: 'Oh it will be a cat.' I was not sure it was a cat, I thought it was a different sound but I could not place it. As I continued walking I began turning my head and looking back at the derelict building. 'This unnerved me and my suspicions were aroused. 'I heard the sound of either a cat wailing or a howling wind coming from inside the building itself.

Newcastle Crown Court has been told it was in fact seven-year-old Nikki Allan's screams as she was murdered in a derelict warehouse by being beaten 37 times with a brick before being repeatedly stabbed in the chest - allegedly by David Boyd (pictured) she said: 'I was just behind my workmates as we passed the front door of the Old Exchange Building.

In a statement read to the court, Mrs Irwin told of the moment she heard the cries. The court has been told it was in fact seven-year-old Nikki Allan's screams as she was murdered in a derelict warehouse by being beaten 37 times with a brick before being repeatedly stabbed in the chest.ĭavid Boyd, 55, of Stockton-on-Tees, denies Nikki's murder.Īnother witness Patricia Irwin was heading home from an evening shift on 7 October 1992 at Mac Fisheries in Hendon, Sunderland when she heard a 'wailing or howling' which sounded at first like a cat crying or the moan of the wind. Witnesses heard 'piercing' screams that lasted a 'couple of seconds' from the derelict building where the body of seven-year-old Nikki Allan was found with 37 stab wounds more than 30 years ago, the murder trial has heard.Ĭarol Osbourne told Newcastle Crown Court on Tuesday that she heard loud screaming while at her home on 7 October 1992, describing it as 'piercing' and believed it to be 'a girl'.

Mission by Kim Alan