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A Perth woman woke to the "feeling of something sharp" on her face before she escaped an attacker who had allegedly stabbed her mother to death in the next room.
Emma Peel, 30, was forced to run for her life after her mother Julianne Egan was allegedly murdered in their Beckenham home about 11.20pm on November 18.
The 63-year-old was allegedly stabbed multiple times in the neck.
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Peel told 9News her sister and their 17-year-old niece were also at home at the time.
"We were asleep and I just remember getting woken up, getting attacked in my sleep," Peel said.
The sharpness that woke her was a blade of glass.
"We've gone into mum's room and we found her on the floor," Peel said.
"She was dead, there was a pile of blood on the floor.
"On her knees in a pile of blood."
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Police charged Deng David Kerr, who was out on bail, with murder and attempted murder after a 12-hour manhunt.
Kerr was someone the family hardly knew.
Peel said the horrifying attack had left her homeless after the locks were changed on the Department of Communities home that was in her mother's name.
"It's very hard … it's hard to even grieve at the moment," she said.
"There's been no support at all, no one has come to us.
"We have just had to deal with it on our own.
"You've gotta be there to support the victims, especially the young ones or they'll never heal."
Homelessness advocates have called for the state to do more for First Nations victims of crime.
