Wednesday 25 May 2022 09:34 AM Woman caught up in love triangle gone wrong reveals bloody fight on her West ... trends now
A woman caught-up in a bloody battle to the death in an alleged assassination gone wrong has recalled the moment she thought she would die.
Silvana Silva and her boyfriend Michael Caposiena had been inside their West Meadows home, north of Melbourne, when Glen Cassidy knocked on the door armed with a revolver.
Cassidy's wife, Biannca Edmunds, 35, is accused of ordering him to execute Caposiena - the estranged father of her toddler son - after he expressed a desire to begin a relationship with the child.
Biannca Edmunds has been accused of directing her husband Glen Cassidy (both pictured) to kill Michael Caposiena
Biannca Edmunds leaves the Supreme Court of Victoria on Wednesday
Edmunds has pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria to his murder.
On Wednesday, the jury heard harrowing evidence from Ms Silva, who witnessed what allegedly happened on March 12, 2016.
'I only had eyes to the gun. I was - I was - I was petrified when I saw the gun, I couldn't move, I couldn't - I couldn't think straight, I couldn't do anything,' she sobbed.
She told the jury Mr Caposiena had for some reason opened the home's security door to his killer despite being so concerned for his welfare that he had armed himself with a large kitchen knife.
The jury was shown bloody crime scene video and images of the aftermath of the pair's final battle.
Ms Silva alleged Cassidy had pushed her partner back and pointed the revolver at his head.
While she never saw Mr Caposiena repeatedly plunge the knife into his attacker in his last moments of life, the jury was shown Cassidy's corpse sprawled across the footpath just outside the home.
He had succumbed to massive blood loss after attempting to pulverise Ms Silva to death with his empty gun.
'I rushed to the door to scream for help. I just started screaming outside for help and that was when he pointed the gun towards my head as well and pulled the trigger,' Ms Silva said.
'It didn't work because I'm not sure if the gun was fully loaded.'
Biannca Edmunds is accused of ordering a brutal hit against her former partner in an effort to keep him out of their child's life
Crime scene photos shown to the jury included a baseball cap found outside near where Cassidy's body was found.
It read: 'The Reaper'.
Just up the stairs leading to the front door, a piece of the handgun was found inside a pot plant.
The gun had broken to pieces as Cassidy pounded it into Ms Silva's head.
'Then he grabbed my hair and then started throwing my head, hitting my head on a step of the front porch, hitting my head several times,' she told the jury.
'The first was face into the ground, then he turned ... then kept hitting my head on the ground.'
Michael Caposiena died after he was shot in the head in March 2016
Ms Silva said she was only saved by brave neighbours.
Upon breaking free, Ms Silva went inside to find Mr Caposiena on the ground with a bullet through his brain.
'I tried everything I could to - to give him alive,' she said.
'I tried to do CPR, I tried - I tried everything. I screamed and yelled
