Weeks before her death, Tatiana Dokhotaru confided in a friend that her ex-partner had allegedly dragged her by the hair, spat on her repeatedly and threatened to kill her during a fight.

Ms Dokhotaru, 34, was killed in her 22nd-floor apartment in southwest Sydney on the night of May 26, 2023.

Her ex-boyfriend Danny Zayat is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to her murder.

The 30-year-old is accused of inflicting one or more blows to Ms Dokhotaru's head, possibly in combination with a push that caused her to fall.

The jury was shown CCTV footage of Zayat arriving at his ex-partner's apartment the day after her death alongside his mother.

Jamile Zayat testified through an interpreter that she had gone to the apartment with her husband, but corrected herself af

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