A BOY told how he awoke to find both his parents lying covered in blood in beds at their Southampton home.

Margaret Kibuuka, 40, was allegedly bludgoened to death with a sledgehammer and had her throat slit by her husband who then stabbed himself and drank a poison potion, a court heard.

Jurors watched Margaret’s eldest son recall in a taped interview how he was awoken on a Sunday morning last November to hear his younger brother and sister crying and screaming.

“I went in the bedroom and saw my mum lying on the bed with blood everywhere,” he said.

He added: “Blood was drooling down from her neck onto the floor.”

The boy said his dad George, 48, who was sleeping in a separate room while his parents were awaiting a divorce, was covered with a bloodied blanket.

“I tried to wake him. I must have pulled the blanket out, there was blood everywhere.”

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Jurors at Winchester Crown Court were played the interview that the boy had given to the police the day after the discoveries were made.

The boy told how his younger brother had let himself out of the house in Richville Road, Shirley and wandered into the street.

“[He] was shouting like hell: ‘somebody help us!’,” the older brother said.

He said his brother went to knock for a neighbour and a passer-by stopped to help and called the police.

He described how he watched paramedics lift his critically ill dad, who was wearing an oxygen mask, on to a trolley. “It was shocking,”

he said.

His mother was also carried out on a trolley, he said.

He said he thought his phone, his mum’s wallet and money were missing from the house and that his parents had been attacked by an intruder.

“They wouldn’t bother my parents for no reason,” he told police in the interview.

“I just don’t know how they broke in and murdered my parents.”

The boy said he had not heard “anything at all” during the night after he went to bed just after 11pm, describing himself as a “fast sleeper”.

He said he remembered saying goodnight to his mum who was studying with an economics book downstairs while his brother was playing a computer game.

The boy said his sister had told him she had woken in the night and saw her dad “drooling from the mouth”.

“She said she couldn’t understand what he was saying,” the boy said, adding his dad had told her to go back to bed. The boy described how the previous day his dad had taken him out with his brother and sister to breakfast at Tesco in Millbrook and then to watch A Christmas Carol 3D at a cinema in Leisure World. They also went to West Quay where he bought them video games and to the Boots pharmacy in Above Bar because his dad wanted to buy some “sleeping pills to help him sleep”.

The boy said they then headed to a Tesco in Bursledon “to get food” for a trip to the seaside in Portsmouth.

But he said they turned back after buying some batteries, a trifle and a chocolate log because they “ran out of time” and instead ordered a Dominoes Pizza when they got back home.

The boy said they shared the trifle “which tasted as if medicine was put in. It tasted a bit sour and weird,” the boy said.

Prosecutors claim Kibuuka had crushed up sleeping tablets into his children’s food and fizzy drinks to sedate them to enable him to kill his wife.

Kibuuka denies charges of murdering his wife and drugging three of his children Jurors later watched CCTV of the stores Kibuuka and his children visited, in which he bought the Tesco chef ’s knife he allegedly used to kill his wife.

Proceeding.