Six weeks before Molly Ticehurst was murdered, she texted a friend: "If I end up dead, he 100 per cent did it."

The childcare educator's former boyfriend Daniel Billings had been tormenting her and threatening to kill her for months when she revealed her fears to her friend on March 4, 2024.

When Ms Ticehurst sought an apprehended violence order in April, she alleged Billings had raped her, intimidated her, smashed her car window and killed her dachshund puppy.

She told officers he had also repeatedly laid out his plans to kill her, saying he would climb through her bedroom window as she slept.

"I will come in the middle of the night ... I will get to you if that is the last thing I do," Ms Ticehurst told police of Billings' threat.

"The police won't stop me, I will get to you quicker

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