By Jonathan Samuels, Australia Correspondent
A young woman banged on her neighbour's door screaming "please help me" moments before she plunged to her death from a 15th floor balcony, a court has heard.
Simon Gittany is accused of murdering his girlfriend Lisa Harnum, 30, by pushing or dropping her from the balcony of their luxury flat in Sydney, Australia, on July 30, 2011.
Susan Glanville, who lived next door to the couple, gave evidence in court and recounted the morning when Ms Harnum fell to her death.
"I heard banging on my door and with the banging a woman's voice scream 'please help me, help me, God help me'," Ms Glanville told the court.
"As I heard the banging I went around the corridor, around the corner and I could see the door shaking.
"I heard a man's raised voice yelling.
"As I walked towards the door (there was) silence."
Simon Gittany Ms Glanville said she didn't open her door to see what was out there.
Moments later, she said she heard a scream that seemed to be coming from outside.
The court had previously heard that Gittany, 40, was a controlling and abusive partner, who discouraged Canadian Ms Harnum from working, secretly monitored her phone calls, texts and emails and alienated her from her friends.
She had plans to leave him days before her death, the trial has heard.
The jury at Sydney's Supreme Court also listened to a secret phone recording of a heated conversation between the couple.
The recording from June 10, 2011, begins with the couple laughing and joking.
Then a fight erupts when Gittany suggests to Ms Harnum that he wants to spend one day a week with his male friends.
"Simon you do that a lot," Ms Harnum says in the recording played in court on Monday.
"You're out with the boys every night."
"What are you talking about, are you serious?" Gittany replies.
Ms Harnum says: "You do it anyway ... it's already like that."
She then says he acts as if she never gives him space even though she always does.
Ms Harnum then becomes emotional, saying everything she does is for him.
"I don't go anywhere ... I don't do anything other than what you tell me to do," she said.
Simon Gittany in a distressed state shortly after the incident "I don't have anything here except for you."
She says when she isn't with him: "I don't talk, I don't speak."
Ms Harnum also says she misses her mother.
Gittany then tells her: "I said once a week, baby, don't take it to the extremes."
Earlier in the trial jurors saw video of the couple apparently grappling in the corridor of the apartment block in the lead-up to Ms Harnum's death.
CCTV footage shows Gittany in a distressed state in the lift in the moments after his girlfriend plunged to her death.
Gittany, whose new girlfriend and parents have supported him each day in court, says they had a complicated but loving relationship and he had tried to save her when she climbed onto the balcony in the midst of a fight.
He denies murder and is expected to give evidence later in the week.
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