A JURY has heard an hysterical 999 call made by a stable lass after she awoke to find herself trapped in her North Yorkshire flat by a fire.

Elizabeth Murphy said she woke after 2am to find flames in the communal staircase at her block of flats in Norton.

She called 999 in an hysterical state as she tried to summon up the courage to jump from her window.

She could be heard screaming: “There’s a fire downstairs, we can’t get out” and later: “I am climbing out.”

She claimed after she reached ground level, Peter William Brown told her: “This is your fault. This is what you get when you have a party.”

She alleged after the emergency services arrived, Brown was “running around shouting something, waving his arms about like he was stopping them getting near”.

Brown, 37, who lived in an adjacent block of flats in Buckrose Court, denies five charges, including two of murdering two jockeys, Jan Wilson and Jamie Kyne.

Miss Murphy said she and her boyfriend Liam Foley were sleeping in her flat when a beeping sound like a car alarm woke her. She opened the flat door into the communal staircase and saw thin smoke.

“I saw a fire underneath. I looked up and I could see flames licking over the top of the banister,” she said. “I ran straight back in. I was screaming, Liam, Liam, get out, there’s a fire.”

As she dialled 999, Mr Foley went out into the staircase and decided they could not escape that way.

“I was a bit hysterical,” she said.

“He started getting out of the window. Liam shouted to me to jump, to get off the phone – I was screaming. “He was half-way down the drainpipe. I was sitting on the railings. I was crying and shouting. I didn’t want to do it. I dropped my phone. I slipped into Liam’s arms and went down the drain pipe.”

The trial continues.