A man accused of murdering a two-year-old girl bought cocaine from another resident at the accommodation, a court has heard.

In a statement read to a jury at Ipswich Crown Court the witness said she saw Scott Jeff and his partner Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell outside East Villa in Sidegate Lane in June last year in the days before the discovery of the child’s body.

She asked them where their child was because she thought they’d left her in their room and was told that her grandfather had picked her up in his Ferrari and she was going to stay with her grandparents for a few days to give them a break.

The witness claimed that Jeff had asked if she could get him some “coke” and after she gave him some he and Gleason-Mitchell had gone to their room with £40 of cocaine.

On Thursday (October 24) the jury was shown CCTV footage taken at East Villa in the days before Gleason-Mitchell’s daughter Isabella’s dead body was found in the bathroom of their accommodation.

 In the recordings Jeff and Gleason-Mitchell were seen pushing Isabella around in her pushchair with the hood up and covered in a Paw Patrol blanket.

 Jeff, 24, and Gleason-Mitchell, also 24, of no fixed address, have denied murdering Isabella between June 26-30 last year

Jeff has also denied causing or allowing the death of a child between June 26-30 last year and two offences of cruelty to a child.

Gleason-Mitchell has pleaded guilty to causing or allowing the death of a child and two offences of cruelty to a child under 16.

The court has heard that Isabella’s body was found in her pushchair in the bathroom of temporary housing in Sidegate Lane, Ipswich in June last year.

She had suffered extensive bruising all over her body, fractures to both her wrists and her pelvis caused by possible kicking or stamping after Jeff started a relationship with Gleason- Mitchell.

“From that time up to her death Isabella was subjected to an escalating regime of brutality that was callous, cruel and ultimately fatal,” said Sally Howes KC, prosecuting.

“It is the prosecution case that Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, Isabella’s mother stood back and watched, did nothing and allowed this to happen,” said Miss Howes.

The court heard that following Isabella’s death the couple had pushed her dead body around in her pushchair with the hood up for several days before leaving her body in Ipswich and fleeing to Bury St Edmunds where they were arrested.

In a statement read to the court Isabella’s 24-year-old father Thomas Wheildon said that he had received a text from Gleason-Mitchell on April 15 last year saying she didn’t believe their relationship was working and asking him to move out of their flat.

He said he last saw Isabella on his birthday on May 14 last year.

On that occasion he had shown a friend a toy gun while Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell was at the flat and he had then heard her mentioning the gun during a telephone call.

Armed police had subsequently turned up at the flat but had left after checking the gun and establishing it was a toy.

Mr Wheildon said that despite repeated requests over the next few weeks to see Isabella, Gleason-Mitchell hadn’t allowed him to have any contact with her.

The trial continues.