As if aware of constant threat, she always sleptwithher gun under her pillow, even at her family home in Yorkshire, where she preferred to spend her nights in a summer-house in the garden rather than in her own comfortable bedroom amongst her beloved family.
Mr Nowak, a factory worker, is accused of killing his 23-year-old girlfriend as she slept - most probably by suffocating herwith a pillow, the court heard.