THE catalogue of injuries suffered by a Hampshire pensioner who was brutally murdered in her home have been laid bare to a jury.

Georgina Edmonds sustained 37 separate wounds across her head, face and body - many of them inflicted with a knife, Winchester Crown Court was told.

Matthew Hamlen is in the dock accused of carrying out the killing. He is standing trial for the second time, having previously been acquitted of the crime.

This morning images of stab wounds and lacerations were shown to jurors after they had been transposed on to a mannequin.

Dr Hugh White, who was at the time of the 77-year-old's death a Home Office pathologist who carried out the postmortem, told the court how she had suffered injuries caused by "significant blunt force" to her head.

Giving evidence he said those were quite possibly caused by a marble rolling pin found in the kitchen close to Mrs Edmonds body on the evening of January 11, 2008.

One similar to that found at the property, in Kingfisher Lodge, Kiln Lane, Brambridge, was shown to the jury so they could feel it's weight.

The court was told how the pensioner had also sustained "extensive" fracturing to her skull and ribs, a heavily bruised eye, head and nose and an array of stab and puncture wounds inflicted with a knife. They included three wounds across the front of her neck.

Dr White told how the stab wounds looked like they had been "delivered with some degree of deliberation rather than force".

He told the court how Mrs Edmonds was wearing a panic button bracelet on her wrist when she died but it had not been activated.

She also showed no defensive marks to her hands, which Dr White said suggested to him that she had "either been rapidly incapacitated or physically restrained."

Dr White said it was "impossible" to say how long it would be between the injuries being inflicted and death.

Hamlen, 36, denies murder.

Proceeding.