A mother helped her daughter escape a troubled arranged marriage and told her 'don't ruin your life, go live it' the night before she was allegedly stabbed to death by her angry son-in-law, a jury has heard.

Rahman was allegedly stabbed to death at her home by her son-in-law Muhammad Tafham, 31, days after his wife left him to move back in with her long-term boyfriend.

The mother was lying on the kitchen floor at lunchtime on February 7 this year.

The mother-of-five had blood around her with a knife in her hand and was pronounced dead at the scene when paramedics arrived.

A post-mortem examination found she had suffered three major stab wounds to the front of her body and one that had passed through her breast bone and right through her heart.

Her daughter, Aysha, 25, had continued to see her partner despite entering into an arranged marriage in Pakistan with Tafham, a cousin on her father's side, who joined her in the UK in September 2016.

The court heard the couple needed to live together for three years so dairy worker Tafham could stay in the country but the pair constantly argued and eventually Aysha asked him for a divorce, which he refused.

Aysha went back to her boyfriend in Bradford and Mrs Begum helped trick Tafham into leaving their home so her daughter hurriedly gather her belongings into bin bags before she drove off with her boyfriend.

Three days later Mrs Begum was found dead in her home.

The Crown say Tafham killed Mrs Begum in anger and then placed the 12in kitchen knife in her hand to make the death appear as a suicide.

Aysha told detectives that her mother had no reason to kill herself.

She said: 'She would not do something like that.'

She said her father, Gulraiz Sharif, did not accept the relationship with her boyfriend, Malik, and that she only agreed to the arranged marriage with Tafham to keep her father happy.

Aysha said Tafham threatened her over the phone the day after she fled to Bradford.

She said: 'I wouldn't tell him where I was staying and he said, 'I am going to come and grab you. I am going to show you who I am'.

'He always used to say, 'I have got a feeling someone is going to get killed out of your family'.'

When she packed her clothes, she said her mother told her boyfriend: 'Look after my daughter' and had said to her: 'Don't ruin your life, go live it.'

Giving evidence on Thursday, Aysha said she had fallen out with her father over living apart from Tafham but said her mother never asked her to stay with the defendant.

Andrew Thomas QC, prosecuting, asked her: 'Did your mother ever say you were bringing shame to the family?'

Aysha said: 'She said wherever my daughters are happy I'm happy.'

Tafham denies murder. The trial continues on Friday.