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Stephanie O’Brien, 24, told the High Court in Glasgow she was staying at a hotel in the city with three friends when her skirt’s zip became stuck. Two of her friends went for help and returned with Clive Carter, a security guard, who pulled at the zip and broke it. Ms O’Brien did not go out with her friends later and while in the room alone, Carter returned holding a fire extinguisher. The jury heard she felt “sick to the stomach” when she saw him and he claimed she had telephoned reception to report a fire. Ms O’Brien, from Cumbria, was giving evidence at the trial of Carter, 35. He is accused of breach of the peace at the hotel by entering her room uninvited and scaring her on November 4, 2012. Carter, from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, is also charged with murdering Khanokporn Satjawat at the Clyde Auditorium, in Glasgow on November 12, 2012, by  striking her with a fire extinguisher.

He has pleaded guilty to the culpable homicide of Ms Satjawat and lodged a special defence of diminished responsibility, but the Crown did not accept it. Ms O’Brien told the court that she and her friends were on an overnight stay in Glasgow on November 3, 2012, but she did not  go out with them. There was a knock at the door and, through the peephole, she saw Carter: “I froze, terrified,” she said. “I wasn’t going to open it, but then I kept thinking, I am 23 I have to open this door, he works for the hotel.  “He said that I had phoned reception saying that there was a fire in my room.  “I thought it was a lot of rubbish,” she said and added that she was “even more scared”. At this point, she said, She went out of the room and Carter went inside. Ms O’Brien told the jury: “I had my phone, I can remember lighting the screen up and saying ‘my friends are coming back now they have just gone for food’. “He came towards me and I ran right past him into the room and locked the door.”  She contacted her friends, who come back to the hotel and they all sat in the bar. They told staff what happened, but did not lodge a complaint. Police contacted her a couple of weeks later after Carter had been charged with murder. Carter denies the charge and the trial before Lord Matthews continues.

Source:express.co.uk/news/uk/436757/My-terror-night-in-Scottish-hotel-Woman-s-claim-over-murder-accused