BLACKHEATH: Rosimeiri Boxall was 'told to jump out window'

Miss Boxall, of Battery Road, Thamesmead, was found beneath an open window after falling from a building in Coleraine Road, Blackheath, on May 17 last year.

Oluwakemi Ajose, aged 19, of Floyd Road, Charlton, and a 15-year-old girl from Belvedere, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.

A transcript was read out in court of Ajose's interview on May 18 last year with Detective Constable Barry Vinall at Plumstead police station.

In it she talked about how 19-year-old Miss Boxall and her co-defendant had been staying with her at the Greenwich Council flat and there had been "pockets of bickering".

The three had been drinking vodka on the day and an argument had developed.

Ajose admitted spraying air freshener in Miss Boxall's eye and later punching and slapping her round the face.

She said her co-defendant "kept banging Rosie's head on the wall" and had sliced the girl's arm with something.

Ajose said before she left the flat Miss Boxall had opened the window and the co-defendant closed it again.

She said the 15-year-old was asking Miss Boxall "if she wanted to die" and "kept telling Rosie to jump out the window."

Ajose said she was downstairs talkng to two men looking for Miss Boxall when they heard "a big thud".

She said Miss Boxall was on the ground outside with "her face smashed and two legs broken".

Ajose added: "I don't know how Rosie fell down or what was responsible for her fall."

She denied verbally abusing her friend as she lay badly injured on the ground.

Ajose had known Miss Boxall for two or three years and the pair had met at Plumstead Manor Sixth Form during a health and social care course.

She said one night in 2007 the pair had met the co-defendant and her sister who "started to make trouble", beating Miss Boxall up.

Describing the other defendant, Ajose said: "She's a bad example to people. She's a bad influence."

The trial continues.