The evidence of the daughter was heard on Tuesday in the trial of the young woman’s mother, Kate Stone.

The Crown alleges Ms Stone doused Mr Reid in fuel and set him alight at their Derwent Drive home late on the night of Sunday, December 18, 2016. Mr Reid died from his burns the following day.

Ms Stone has pleaded not guilty.

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The jury heard the daughter’s evidence via two videos, the first recorded on December 20, 2016.

The daughter told a police officer she and her sister were watching a movie in the lounge room with their parents on the night of December 18, 2016 when there was a knock on the door and three men yelling, “We’re going to get your kids”.

She said she was told to take her sister into a room, which she did. When her parents answered the door, she said, they had petrol tipped on them.

The daughter said her father then pushed her mother out of the way and was set alight.

She said she then heard her father yelling, “Help, help”.

In the second video of evidence, recorded on January 4, 2017, the daughter said she recognised the voice at the door as that of a Jason Baxter.

She said there were two other men with him, and after she took her sister into her room, she could hear yelling and threats of violence against her and her sister.

The daughter said her parents were protecting them when they had petrol tipped on them and her father was set alight.

She said she heard him yelling, “Shower, shower, shower”, and when she went out she saw her father on fire, “lit head to toe”.

Mr Reid ran outside then back in, she said, before getting into the bath, which contained water because she had run it earlier.

She said she called triple zero and said her father was on fire, then went to her father.

“He said he’s not going to make it, and he loves me,” the teenager said.

In the interview, the daughter told the police officer she knew the voice of Jason Baxter because she heard it in a previous incident.

When this first incident occurred, she said, she was on the phone to her mother when she was allegedly attacked by a man who she heard over the phone identified himself as Jason Baxter.

The daughter said she asked her father what it was about and he told her it was related to a fight in which a teenage boy tried to beat up her younger brother.

She said she did not see any faces on the night her father was fatally injured.

That night, the daughter said, she called her sister from the hospital and told her a Jason Baxter had “put Dad on fire”.

After her father was airlifted to Melbourne, she said they went to his sister Janyne’s house.

She said she told her aunt three men had lit her father on fire.

“He was a good man, he didn’t deserve what he got,” she said.

In giving her evidence, the daughter was asked why she knew her mother was not involved.

“Because I was there and they loved each other that much, they wouldn’t hurt each other,” she replied.

The daughter said she called triple zero twice on December 18, 2016: when her father was set alight, and earlier when her mother had a seizure.

But she said her father “snapped (her mother) out of it” before the ambulance came.

She said it was common for her mother to have seizures.

The court heard an audio recording of the first triple zero call, during which the daughter tells the operator her mother was “trying to swallow her tongue”.

The daughter appeared in court on Tuesday and confirmed what she said in both recorded interviews played to the jury was true and correct.

She also confirmed the recording was of the triple zero call she had made on December 18, 2016.

A forensic physician asked by the Homicide Squad to examine Ms Stone two days after the incident was also called to give evidence.

Dr Jason Schreiber, from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, said a police officer told him Ms Stone had been close to a person who was doused in fuel and set on fire.

He said Ms Stone also told him she had embraced a person on fire.

Dr Schreiber told the court Ms Stone sustained a superficial burn on one forearm, a superficial scratch to her wrist, and a second degree burn of five centimetres by two centimetres to her right leg. 

He said he also observed a larger patchy area of reddening and swelling on her right leg.

But Dr Schreiber told the court he was unable determine whether this injury was a burn, or bruising caused by blunt trauma. 

The court heard he also perceived a burning smell around Ms Stone’s hair when examining her, but there was nothing, such as singed hair, visible.

Dr Schreiber said he believed Ms Stone had sustained thermal injury “of some cause”, but whether it was the result of flames or hot liquid, he did not know. The injuries were of “mild severity”, he said 

In response to a question from Crown prosecutor Melissa Mahady, Dr Schreiber said he thought “the injury can occur in a setting as described”. He told the court it did not mean there were not other possible causes, but in his view it was plausible.

In cross-examination, Dr Schreiber confirmed the only opinion he could offer was that the thermal injury occurred because of fire, flame or liquid, but he did not draw a conclusion as to whether Ms Stone’s injuries were caused by a person on fire.

He said he was also unable to say whether or not the injuries occurred at the same time.

The trial continues before Justice Lesley Taylor.

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