A MUM has told a court about telephone threats made by her ex-partner where he claimed she would be ‘pushing two wheelchairs’ when he shot her daughter and new partner.

Kevin King, 30, is accused of conspiring to murder Mark Walsh two years after he first made the threats to Chloe Goodbier – the estranged mother of his child.

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Miss Goodbier told Preston Crown Court King was working abroad when she ended her four-year relationship with him in 2012.

She said: “He was crying on the phone when I told him but then I tried to stop communication.

“I tried arranging dates for him to see our daughter but that wasn’t successful.”

However soon after Miss Goodbier started a new relationship with Mark Walsh, she received threatening phone calls from King.

She told the court: “I was at Mark’s and Mark was with me. One of the calls was telling me he was going to pay to kidnap our daughter.

“Then the second one was that I was going to be pushing two wheelchairs around because he was going to shoot my two-year-old daughter and shoot Mark.”

After the calls, in February 2012, King was given a two-year restraining order banning him from contacting Miss Goodbier.

But three years after the calls, Mr Walsh was shot in the head when he went to investigate a disturbance outside his home in Maudsley Street, Accrington.

The prosecution alleges King, of Lodge Lane, Lytham St Annes, arranged for his friend Donovan Wallace, 26, also of Lodge Lane, to carry out the shooting along with Jack Wilding, 20, of no fixed address.

The trio deny conspiracy to murder.

Wallace and Wilding also deny attempted murder.

Miss Goodbier told the court on January 12, 2015 she and her partner were sitting on the sofa watching TV when they heard the dogs start barking.

Mr Walsh went to investigate but was bleeding when he returned.

Miss Goodbier said: “There was blood squirting from his head and he couldn’t see properly. He was holding onto the wall.

“I was speaking to him and I thought at first he was ignoring me but he couldn’t hear me .”

The couple tried to stem the bleeding while Chloe called 999, the court heard.

As the operator asked the young mum questions to put to her partner Chloe wrote them down on paper as Mark was unable to hear what she said.

Mark was taken to Royal Preston Hospital and treated for more than 80 gunshot wounds to his head and more to his arms and back.

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