BLOOD-SOAKED Adam Whelehan bought booze, cigars and scratch cards after allegedly killing Natalie Jarvis in Swanley Village, a court heard.

Maidstone Crown Court was told on Friday how the 23-year-old was driven by co-defendant and friend Thomas Fuller to Tesco Express in Eltham High Street to buy the items after stabbing Miss Jarvis.

The prosecution alleges Whelehan, of Roseberry Drive, Sidcup, murdered his 23-year-old girlfriend Miss Jarvis because he “wanted out of the relationship and the only way out he could see was to kill her.”

She was found dead on the ground in Swanley Village Road after suffering more than 20 stab wounds to her neck on October 3 last year.

It is also alleged Thomas Fuller, of Oakley Drive, Eltham, also 23, was the "getaway driver".

The court has heard Whelehan picked Miss Jarvis up from her home at about 10.30pm before driving to a car park in Button Road, Swanley, and getting out of the car with Miss Jarvis at about 10.50pm.

The prosecution says “by the time Whelehan returned to the car, then driven by Fuller, she lay dead.”

The court heard on Friday how after the stabbing, Fuller drove Whelehan to Sidcup High Street to pick up their friend Matt Woods who they had been drinking with earlier in the evening.

Giving evidence in court, Mr Woods said: “Adam had blood over him.

“He had blood on his face, arms and the top he was wearing.

“He opened up the car boot and pulled out his jogging bottoms which also had blood on them.”

Mr Woods told jurors he was “extremely drunk” and got in the car with the pair “because they wanted to go for a drive”.

He added: “Honestly, I don’t know why I did. I put it down to drinking too much on the evening.”

When the trio arrived in Eltham High Street, Whelehan stayed in the car and handed his credit card to Mr Woods and Fuller to buy alcohol, cigarettes, cigars and a scratch card from Tesco Express.

Recalling the conversation in the car, Mr Woods said: “We were smoking and drinking and the only topic of conversation I can remember was football related.”

However, he did remember Whelehan grabbing a packet of condoms from the car.

Mr Woods said: “He emptied them on the floor and said ‘I won’t be needing these anymore.’ “I picked a couple of them up and put them in my pocket.”

They then headed to the house of another friend called Steven Hughes in Eltham.

Mr Hughes told the court when Whelehan, Fuller and Mr Woods arrived in the car, Whelehan had blood on his face, a deep cut to his hand and blood on his jogging bottoms he had taken off and dumped in the boot.

Mr Hughes spoke to Whelehan alone, who said “there was a struggle and he was cut first” and “he thought he had killed her”.

During the conversation he said Whelehan had dropped the knife down a drain - the knife has never been found.

Fuller drove Mr Woods back to his house.

As he departed, Whelehan threw Mr Woods a £20 and £10 note but he returned the £10 because it was bloodstained.

Mr Woods told the court: “I remember telling Adam if he’s done what he’s done he has to hand himself in.”

Jurors heard on Thursday how Whelehan was “unable to cope with his relationship with Natalie and the suggestion she was pregnant.”

Prosecutor Ian Acheson said: “He expressed repeatedly and increasingly through September both online and through messages he wanted out and he was going to kill her.”

Whelehan and Fuller deny murder.

The trial continues.