PROSECUTORS will today make their closing speech to the jury in their case against the man accused of murdering Southampton teenager Hannah Foster.

Yesterday saw the end of the defence case for Maninder Pal Singh Kohli with jurors hearing the final day of evidence on the 25th day of the trial at Winchester Crown Court.

They heard from two sisters who took to the witness stand to recall how they had seen an “Arablooking”

man and a black car at the bottle bank in Southsea where Hannah’s bag and mobile phone were found.

Jeweller Emily McClean said she saw a man of around 5ft 9in, aged 25 or 26 putting a “fabric” item into the bottle bank on the morning after Hannah went missing.

Mrs McClean had been travelling to work with her sister.

She approached police with the sighting after she was stopped during a road side appeal.

Accused Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, 41, had earlier told the court he thought he was being followed by a suspicious dark coloured car the morning after Hannah vanished.

He had previously also claimed to have been abducted and forced into having sex with a woman, he now believed to be Hannah Foster.

During cross-examination prosecutor Nicholas Haggan QC questioned whether the sisters had muddled the day they saw the man.

Mr Haggan also went through police interviews the sisters gave to police where they stated they didn’t think the man was putting the fabric into the same “green”

recycling bin where Hannah’s belongings were later found Kohli denies the abduction, false imprisonment, rape and murder of 17-year-old Hannah, whose body was found in Allington Lane, West End, on March 16, 2003.

Proceeding.