A MAN accused of pushing his partner to her death from a multistorey car park was seen shouting abuse as he tried to find her, a jury has heard.

Teresa Parkin, 29, originally from Colburn, North Yorkshire, died in June last year after she fell 80ft from the building, in Torquay, Devon.

Her boyfriend, Shaun Foley, 45, from Torquay, is accused of pushing her over railings along the edge of an entrance bridge.

He denies murder, saying she committed suicide because she was depressed about access to her ten-year-old son.

The jury at Exeter Crown Court yesterday heard from a prosecution witness who said she heard a man matching Mr Foley’s description shouting abuse in the street near the car park.

Janet Holmes told the jury she heard an angry man shouting he was going to “kill the slag”

as he walked past her window.

She told the court: “It was a male that was extremely angry and just shouting abuse.

“I looked out of the window and he was the only male in the road.”

She said she was first alerted by a loud banging sound as if someone was punching a door.

Ms Holmes then said she heard the threat to kill and watched the man walk in the direction of the car park, still shouting abuse, until he went out of sight.

She described him as “very, very angry”.

She told police of the incident after she heard about Ms Parkin’s death. In an identification parade Mrs Holmes picked out Mr Foley and another man as the person she saw.

Ms Parkin died of fractures to her skull and ribs after falling onto a concrete roof.

She and Mr Foley had been drinking when Ms Parkin left him in a bar after becoming upset.

Mr Foley said she went to the car park to kill herself.

The jury has previously been shown security camera footage of the pair arguing in the car park and Mr Foley striking Ms Parkin to the ground before they disappear from the view of the camera.

The final moments before Ms Parkin fell from the bridge were not captured.

The trial continues.