THE man accused of killing mum-of-five Pennie Davis told jurors he was not "bothered" if they found him guilty of her murder.

Giving evidence for a third day at Winchester Crown Court to deny stabbing to death the supermarket worker near Beaulieu, Justin Robertson admitted he only cared about his loved ones knowing the truth.

He said: "I'm not bothered if you convict me, as long as my friends and family know the truth, I don't care."

Under cross-examination from prosecutor Richard Smith QC, Robertson also told the court that a murder like that of 47-year-old Pennie would not have been a "one person job".

Robertson, 36, is charged with murder and conspiracy to murder.

Carr, 22, of Edward Road, Shirley and Samantha Maclean, 28, of Beech Crescent, Hythe, are both charged with conspiracy to murder.

They all deny the charges.

As previously reported, the prosecution alleges Carr offered to pay Robertson £1,500 to kill Pennie, in a bid to stop her resurrecting historic claims that he indecently assaulted girls.

This morning Robertson was quizzed again about the key of the car he used to drive to Beaulieu in, on the day of the murder, and how it came to be beside Pennie's body?

Robertson told the court "obviously somebody set me up" and added that if he had dropped the key after killing Pennie he would have stayed at the scene until he found it.

When Mr Smith suggested that he couldn't go back to look for the key because he couldn't risk being seen by the body by someone else, Robertson replied: "If I killed Pennie Davis then I am pretty sure I would have stayed there and if somebody would have come along I would have killed them, but I didn't."

When Mr Smith suggested that Carr would have had to have recruited somebody to carry out the murder who would be interested in a financial gain, Robertson replied that he would have to find someone "with no heart".

Robertson was also asked why his close friends described him as being agitated on the day of the murder, September 2, last year? And he said they had got it wrong.

He also told the court that the two people who gave evidence, saying he had confessed to the killing to them, were lying.

Proceeding.