A NEIGHBOUR of a mother accused of murdering her four-year-old daughter told a jury today how she reported her to social services because she was "so angry" at constantly seeing the youngster at her bedroom window looking sad.

Leticia Wright died from severe wounds to her head and abdomen that were allegedly inflicted by her mother Sharon Wright, 23, and her then partner at the time Peter Seaton, 22, Bradford Crown Court has already been told.

Little Leticia had so many injuries to her body that it was impossible to count them all, the court has heard.

But the two defendants have denied causing them and have both pleaded not guilty to murder and an alternative charge of causing or allowing the death of a child.

On the second day of the trial today the jury heard from neighbours who had often seen Leticia stood looking out at her bedroom window at the house she shared with the defendants at Almondbury Bank, Moldgreen in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

One resident Sharon Dalton said the she could be there both in the mornings and afternoons and that all the curtains in the house would be closed. "She appeared to be sad," Miss Dalton said.

She described how she eventually reported the matter to social services and added: "I felt that either the little girl was being left in the house alone and that nobody was coming home until late afternoon or that they (the adults in the house) were sleeping."

On arriving home in the afternoon one day she said that Leticia was once again in the window dressed in her pyjama top.

"I was so angry that I decided I was going to phone social services," Miss Dalton told the court. "I saw her and she seemed even sadder. I waved at her and she didn't wave back, she just looked like she was looking straight through me."

Diane Harrison, who lives on Almondbury Bank, said that she too had phoned social services because she had seen Leticia at the window so often.

In a statement read to the court she said: "I can say that once the people moved in I became greatly concerned about the little girl who lived there for the past couple of months she seemed to be spending a lot of time in the front bedroom window. She seemed to be alone."

The court also heard from paediatrician Dr Kate Ward who said that Leticia had so many injuries it was almost impossible to count them all.

The jury were show computer generated images of the injuries Leticia had sustained which covered almost her entire body.

Dr Ward told the court that it was a possibility that Leticia had been sexually abused prior to her death.

Small injuries to her genitals and pubic area were consistent with sexual interference, the doctor said, but she added that she could not say with certainty that they were the result of any sexual abuse.

She added that they could have been caused post-mortem.

Prosecutor Nicholas Campbell QC has said that Leticia denied of a fatal wound to the back of the head and a severe injury to the abdomen similar to those suffered in road traffic accidents.

But both Wright, of Almondbury Bank, and Seaton, a former Hartlepool resident, who now lives at Meadow Lane, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, have denied responsibility.

As well as her fatal wounds Leticia also had bite mark injuries and cigarette burns.

A social worker who visited Leticia and her mother due to concerns raised by neighbours told the jury that the pair seemed to have normal relationship.

Nicola Stephenson, from Kirklees Council child protection unit agreed with Wright's barrister Julian Goose QC when he said that during her one hour visit Leticia had been openly affectionate to her mother, cuddling and kissing her.

Miss Stephenson said that Leticia was wearing her dressing gown and added that she noticed no injuries to her legs, arms or face.

"They appeared to have a nice attachment," she told the jury.

During the visit Wright was told that she should register her daughter at a school and at a local surgery and Leticia was enrolled at a local nursery.

Miss Stephenson said that checks were made to ensure Leticia was attending and when she spoke to Wright over the phone she was told that she was trying to get Leticia registered with a doctor.

Miss Stephenson said that she took Wright at her word and confirmed that the defendant was then told that the file on her had been closed and that the council would be taking no further action.

The jury have been told that Leticia only attended nursery for a week and was never registered with a doctor.

Miss Stephenson said that once she had started at nursery the responsibility to keep a check on her passed to the school.

The trial continues on Monday.