FORENSIC analysis of the body of murdered mum of five Pennie Davis found only her DNA on her body, a court heard.

On the final day of evidence from the prosecution, Winchester Crown Court heard how a series of swabs were taken from Pennie's body for analysis and that the only DNA found was that of the supermarket worker.

The court also heard further police interviews with Robertson during which officers questioned him about his regular phone contact with Ben Carr on the day 47-year-old Pennie was stabbed to death in a field, near Beaulieu.

They asked Robertson if those calls and texts were to do with Pennie's murder but he told them he had watched many CSI programmes and there would be “no way on this earth” he would get involved with a murder “done through phones”.

He added: “Everyone knows it would be stupid.”

When asked what those calls and texts were about, he said he didn't know and that some of them may have been about drugs.

During the interviews Robertson was told by police that Samantha Maclean had also been arrested and he told them there was “no way” she would be involved in a conspiracy to murder someone.

He added she was the “sweetest” girl, who would do anything for anyone and he would put his life on Maclean not being involved.

The court also heard how Robertson described himself to police as a “cheeky chappie”, a “career criminal” and a “Del Boy” type, adding “I definitely don't have anything to do with the murder of this woman”.

He added: “I have lost a parent, I know what it is like to lose. There's no way on earth I am capable of taking a person's life.

“I haven't conspired with anyone to kill anyone.”

He added he wouldn't conspire with Carr to shoot a “rubber duck”.

Later, the court heard how Maclean answered no comment in her police interviews, only providing two prepared statements to police.

In those, she said she never knew and had never heard of Pennie before reading about her murder on social media and that she would drive Robertson around almost every day.

The jury was also told how during the police investigation, a theory came to the attention of officers about what happened to Pennie.

The court heard several people, including one of Pennie's daughters, contacted police about this rumour, which was that whoever attacked Pennie, was wearing a mask or a balaclava, and it was because she pulled this off she was killed because she had seen her attacker's face.

Robertson, 36, of no fixed address, is charged with murder and conspiracy to murder. Carr, 22, of Edward Road, Shirley and Maclean, 28, of Beech Crescent, Hythe, are both charged with conspiracy to murder. They all deny the charges.

Proceeding

  • PENNIE Davis' final journey before she was brutally killed as she tended to her horses was captured on CCTV.

During the trial, jurors have seen footage from CCTV at the Sainsbury's store in Blackfield where Pennie worked, showing her as she left work shortly before she was killed.

The short clip shows her wearing a light blue top and carrying two bags, as she heads out to her car, which is parked opposite the store in the car park.

She then drives off, making her final journey to the Leygreen Farm, where she was keeping her horses.

The court has also seen CCTV footage from the Montagu Arms hotel in Beaulieu from both the day of her death, September 2 last year, and the day before.

The prosecution claims this shows the wheels of Pennie's car as she drove towards Leygreen Farm and the wheels of Samantha Maclean's car following just seconds later, on both days.

Jurors also saw footage taken from a camera on the dashboard of a car, which captures Robertson's friend Emily James car, driving through Beaulieu, as she goes to pick him up close to the Beaulieu Motor Museum, on the day of her death.