Lying half naked on a sofa, this is the moment police officers burst in on a City banker accused of killing an escort after a drug and alcohol fuelled night of sex.
Women's underwear, blankets and drugs paraphernalia lie strewn around the flat in Crawley, West Sussex, where the blood-covered body of Christina Abbotts, 29, was found naked and battered on the bed in May this year.
When they entered the living room they discovered Zahid Naseem, 47, in his dressing gown lying immobile on the sofa with his eyes closed.
Initially they thought Naseem, 47, might also be dead - but a police officer notes that his eyes flicker when a torch is pointed at them.
Paramedic Stuart Plumbley quickly says Naseem may be 'feigning' his condition, shaking him repeatedly and saying loudly: 'Come on mate. Wakey wakey. I know you can hear me'.
This is the moment stormed a flat to find an escort dead and her alleged killer Zahid Naseem unconscious in his dressing gown on the sofa (pictured) surrounded by alcohol and drugs paraphernalia
Naseem remained out cold for more than two hours but medics believe he was faking it and was arrested on camera in hospital (pictured)
Police stormed the property and first found blood-covered body of Christina Abbotts, 29, lying naked and battered on the bed
His alleged act continued for two and a half hours.
Naseem later woke up in hospital and told police he couldn't remember the incident and added: 'I'm not some hyper high-functioning psychopath creating a story for you a la Silence of the Lambs.'
Miss Abbots was believed to have lived a secret life as a high-class escort but told her friends and family she worked in IT
Today jury at Lewes Crown Court was shown the footage taken from a police body camera of the moment they discovered Naseem lying on the sofa in a short grey dressing gown.
Before showing the footage, Christopher Tehrani QC told them: 'This will give the good impression of how the defendant presented at different times.'
The 20-minute edited footage showed at least three officers using a battering ram to smash down the door of the flat and gain entry.
One officer wearing a body camera moves towards the living room and says: 'There's someone else in here.'
The camera then shows the prone figure of Naseem lying on the sofa in a grey dressing gown.
Also visible on a coffee table are wine glasses, bottles of vodka and water and a bottle opener.
On the floor the camera picks up items of clothing and blankets strewn across the living room furniture.
Naseem is then moved to the floor and a police officer keeps his airways open while they await the arrival of paramedics.
After his arrival paramedic Mr Plumbley, believing him to be conscious, asks Naseem to open his eyes.
He says: 'Come on mate I know you can hear me, can open your eyes now. Can you move your fingers?'
Grainy CCTV footage allegedly shows Zahid Naseem kissing escort Christina Abbotts before she was found battered to death
The pair were in Asda in Crawley buying alcohol before the alleged attack, a court has heard
Ms Abbotts had been hit 13 times on the head with a pestle when she was found, a jury was told
Naseem is later shown inside an ambulance as paramedics fit cardiac monitors and an IV line as they prepare to take him to hospital.
After his arrival at the Redhill Hospital in Surrey the £250,000-a-year banker is clearly conscious and gives police his name and address.
Miss Abbotts' father said he was unaware of what she did for a living
He is then questioned briefly by police before being read his rights and arrested.
On Monday Naseem, a banker in the City of London, who denies murdering the 29-year-old on her birthday in May this year.
Lewes Crown Court heard the Christina Abbotts told friends and family she was working as an IT consultant in London but in reality she was a secretly earning £2,000 a time as a 'high-class escort'.
Using the pseudonym, Tilly Pexton, she advertised her sexual services online and clients could make contact with her through the website.
The pair had met several times before after Naseem, a father of two, had picked her out on the adult website after she described herself as a 'privately-educated' City girl.
He told friends she was 'more like a socialite than a sex worker' and claimed she was 'very posh.'
However the court heard Miss Abbotts was a university drop-out who had flitted between various jobs before being forced to move to Crawley due to the cost of living in London.
Fellow sex workers told the court she drank heavily and used a lot of cocaine and other drugs.
After a drug-fuelled night of Miss Abbotts, 29, was repeatedly beaten around the head with a kitchen pestle in a 'savage and brutal' attack in a flat.
During their search of the two-bedroom top-floor flat police found cocaine and the sex drug, amyl nitrate, as well as a blood-stained bottle of Courvoisier brandy.
Police found the body of Miss Abbotts in a flat where she was housesitting in Crawley
In a police interview played to the jury Naseem bursts into tears after being told they are there to speak about Christina Abbotts.
Wearing grey, police issue jogging top and trousers he tells officers he had known Christina, who he knew as Tilly, around a month and a half earlier and thought of her as 'more of a socialite' than an escort girl.
He tells officers that on the the night of the alleged murder he and Miss Abbotts had gone to the supermarket 'looking for a particular type of champagne that she likes.'
The trial continues.
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