THE girlfriend of stabbing victim Fynn Western-Davey became emotional as she told a court her boyfriend would “not use a weapon”.

Stacey Ward, 22, who was wearing black, left Chester Crown Court in tears shortly after the prosecutor had asked her to tell the jury what Mr Western-Davey was like.

Standing in front of Jason Howells and Nicola Bishop, the pair accused of murdering her boyfriend of five years, she said: “He was fun, he was full of life, always happy, a good sense of humour.”

The court has heard evidence that Howells and Bishop, who deny the charge, will argue it was Mr Western-Davey who was the aggressor at their Balmoral Park home where he died.

Asked by Michael Chambers QC, prosecuting, if Miss Ward had ever known him to use a knife, she replied while sobbing: “No, he would not use a weapon.”

Miss Ward had lived with Mr Western-Davey and her son from a previous relationship at their home in Chapel Lane, Boughton.

She admitted being aware her boyfriend was a drug dealer who had previously taken cocaine as she herself had done in the past.

Under cross examination, Miss Ward agreed she did not get involved in that side of his life and that the course of action she took was not to ask too many questions.

But Miss Ward admitted being aware her boyfriend was involved with Howells in selling drugs and about Howells being supplied with £5,000 worth of crack cocaine and heroin by a Birkenhead dealer.

On the day of his death, she had a conversation on her mobile phone with her boyfriend in which he alluded to a problem.

Miss Ward told the court: “He told me that drugs had gone missing and Birkenhead fellas might be coming down so he might have to go and sort something out.”

Andrew Thomas QC, representing Bishop, asked Miss Ward about her 15.5 stone boyfriend’s daily trips to the gym and she admitted he was a steroid user.

He also asked about an incident last November in which he head-butted and punched her several times in the doorway of her home. Miss Ward, who agreed she loved Mr Western-Davey, accepted this happened, but added: “As well as me punching him.”

Mr Thomas also questioned her over her mobile phone which was never recovered by police during their investigation but which she said she had misplaced.

The trial continues.