'My father stabbed me 13 times - before murdering my little brother', girl, 14, tells court

Donna Hawkins, 14, managed to escape the alleged attack but was unable to save four-year-old Ryan.

The jury heard that Christopher Hawkins's jealousy over his estranged wife's affair with a colleague led him to attack their children.

Donna said her 47-year-old father became "nasty" when she arrived at his house last September to collect Ryan and take him back to their mother.

"He turned around and said 'I'm sorry' and he just looked proper weird, angry," she said. "I saw the knife and then he just went for me. I was telling him to stop and he just did it again and again."

Donna said her father attacked her for about "20 to 30 seconds" and stopped when she told him: "I don't hate you."

Hawkins allegedly paused when Donna's phone rang but kept the knife pointed at her while she had a brief conversation with her mother's boyfriend without revealing what was happening.

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"I was spitting blood out of my mouth," she said. "I came off the phone and my dad said: 'I am going to kill Ryan now.'

"I said 'No, I can't watch this, I can't watch this,' and turned away."

The terrified girl managed to stumble across the road before collapsing outside the house in Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield.

She was found by friends who lived on the street. She said: "I was telling them to go and get my brother."

The jury at Leeds Crown Court watched a video of Donna's evidence, from a recorded interview with police.

Hawkins allegedly attacked his children one day after his 17th wedding anniversary because he was torn apart by jealousy.

His wife Valerie, 41, had left him for a colleague months earlier.

The attack left Donna needing emergency surgery and she received injuries to her face, chest, abdomen, arm and thigh, the court heard.

Ryan, who died days after his fourth birthday, was stabbed nine times. Two of the blows pierced his heart.

Hawkins has another daughter, 16-year-old Natalie, with his estranged wife, as well as two children from a previous relationship.

But Donna said that her father and Ryan shared a "special bond". Hawkins has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ryan and denies the attempted murder of Donna.

The trial continues.