A HOTEL receptionist told a court how he saw his Tinder date stabbed to death by her jealous ex-boyfriend after he 'kicked down the door' in a bid to save her.

Vincente Breso-Biosca met Cristina Ortiz-Lozano through the popular dating site, but their first meeting turned into a nightmare when they were stalked back to her home by her former lover.

Abdelaziz El Yechioui Ourzat was seen on CCTV 'hiding in the shadows' as he watched the pair sitting outside a pub on their date.

The jury heard how Ourzat followed them back to Miss Ortiz-Lozano's home afterwards, before stabbing her 23 times with a knife in her kitchen.

Prosecutor Kerry Maylin described Ourzat, 30 and of Moroccan descent, as 'a jealous ex-boyfriend in a fit of rage who conducted a frenzied attack on her, quite simply because she had gone out with a male, not Mr Ourzat, on the night of the killing'.

Today at Winchester Crown Court, Mr Breso-Biosca told jurors that he matched with the 'beautiful' 28 year old Spaniard on Tinder while he was working as a hotel receptionist in Hampshire's New Forest.

The pair started chatting through the app and agreed to meet the next day. He told jurors they went to Sprinkles ice cream parlour and the Giddy Bridge pub in Southampton.

The 30 year old said they talked about their families and Brexit, adding: 'At that moment everything seemed normal. Just a guy and a girl getting to know each other'.

But while sat outside the pub, he said her face changed 'drastically' and she seemed scared like 'somebody terrified of an animal'.

"She said she had seen her ex-boyfriend and wanted to leave immediately," he said.

They left the pub and headed towards her home in the city. On the way back, Mr Breso-Biosca said she told him about 'the story of that relationship'.

"She said he had drinking problems and he was violent," he said.

"She wasn't really happy, she couldn't do anything like go to the gym... during the relationship.

"He was always drunk or had drinking problems."

He said that Ourzat was 'outside on the street, waiting for her' when they got back and followed her inside her house while Mr Breso-Biosca waited outside.

"She was telling him to leave [saying] 'please leave, I don't want to see you'.

"I heard a scream that I wouldn't expect to hear anywhere else at any time. It was her.

"My whole body knew that she was terrified."

Mr Breso-Biosca said he told some neighbours to 'call the police and somebody help me because he's going to kill her'.

"I ran to the door, I kicked the door down and ran inside the house.

"She was laying on the floor on her back. He was on top of her with one hand on her throat.

"As soon as I got to the door of the kitchen he grabbed the knife with his other hand.

"He was kneeling on top of her. He had her under full submission.

"He was trying to choke her or hold her down.

"She was already gone."

Mr Breso-Biosca fled the house, fearing he 'could be next' and grabbed a phone off a neighbour who was calling the police.

He told the police to 'rush it because he's killed her and we don't know what he would do next'.

Jurors at Winchester Crown Court also heard from Cristina Rodriguez-Lopez, 29, who lived with Miss Ortiz-Lozano and was a close friend of hers.

The last message she got from her friend was an audio message on WhatsApp on the night of her killing, in which she said she had seen Ourzat but wasn't sure if he had seen her.

Miss Rodriguez-Lopez said she fell asleep but was awoken by her friend 'screaming' for Ourzat to get out of the house.

She said she was scared, so shut her bedroom door and called the police.

She then heard 'bumps' that sounded 'like he was throwing furniture again'. She then heard Ourzat 'screaming her name' and said he sounded 'desperate'.

The two Cristinas met at school in Spain and were in the same class as Ourzat.

Miss Rodriguez-Lopez said this was when the pair began their 12-year relationship, although she added 'there were some break-ups' during that time.

She said the pair broke up temporarily while they were living in Liverpool. Afterwards, she said Ourzat had pretended he 'drank bleach' and 'tried to kill himself' to get Miss Ortiz-Lozano to come back to him.

Miss Ortiz-Lozano dumped him in August 2019 - about a month before the killing - after he was arrested for drink driving.

The jury heard Ourzat, who worked as a baggage handler at Southampton docks, went on a rampage about her house following the break up, ripping light fixtures and radiators out of walls.

Miss Rodriguez-Lopez said: "Cristina ran downstairs, screaming that he was damaging the whole house.

"I went out to the garden and I called the police.

"Then some white wardrobe doors were thrown from the window into the garden.

"He broke the toilet, the shower, he broke up the furniture in the bedrooms and he broke up the furniture in the living room."

Ourzat was arrested and had bail conditions banning him from the house and contacting Miss Ortiz-Lozano, but he continued to email her, calling her a 'bitch' and a 'whore'.

The court heard how Ortiz-Lozano told work colleagues at Norwegian Cruise Line that she planned to return to Spain to escape Ourzat following this incident, and was afraid to walk in to work on her own. They described her as a 'kind, friendly, smart and beautiful' woman.

Stephen Moses, defending, said that Ourzat was stabbed in the neck and the chest on the night of the killing. Ourzat told police he was stabbed first by Miss Ortiz-Lozano before he killed her.

He denies murder but admits manslaughter by diminished responsibility.

The trial continues.