Harrowing 999 calls capture tragic Kiena Dawes’ desperate pleas for help when she came around, soaked in her own blood, after being knocked out by her ex. In the first of two calls to emergency services Kiena repeats "please help me” before calling out her address and asking if the operator can hear her, then hanging up. Minutes later she calls back, clearly confused and losing blood. Kiena, 23, had been attacked by her former fiancé Ryan Wellings, 30, who has today been found not guilty of her manslaughter. Just a few days later she took her own life, unable to cope with the long campaign of abuse from her baby’s father.
In the second, longer call, Kiena is holding her baby in her arms and the infant can be heard crying as she tells the operator: “I really don’t feel very well, I need to sit down. It’s Ryan, her dad, he’s gone but there’s blood everywhere, wait I need to think, he’s gone now. My phone’s going to end up breaking because it's covered in blood. My head is killing me, I rang my buzzer, I have a panic alarm, but it got a lot worse, he knocked me out and I’ve woken up on the hallway floor and the baby has seen me.”.
She can be heard, trying to calm the distressed eight-month-old baby girl down before telling the operator. “I’m pouring with blood but I haven’t looked at it yet, I’ve just woken up, it’s just pouring down my face.”. Wellings faced charges of manslaughter, assault and controlling and coercive behaviour towards Kiena during a trial at Preston Crown Court, which heard he carried out a prolonged campaign of abuse before she was found dead on a railway track near Garstang, in Lancashire, in July 2022. He was found not guilty of manslaughter by the jury, but guilty of assault and controlling and coercive behaviour.
