MURDER suspects Adam Whelehan and Tom Fuller talked about how they should “torch the car” after Natalie Jarvis was stabbed to death in Swanley Village, a court heard.

Fuller’s ex-girlfriend Stephanie Kinchlea also told Maidstone Crown Court how Whelehan had given Fuller his mobile phone after the stabbing on October 3 last year and told him to “smash it up.”

Recalling a telephone conversation with Fuller on October 10, a week after 23-year-old Miss Jarvis was killed, Miss Kinchlea told the jury of eight men and four women: “Adam had said to Tom that him and Tom should torch the car but Tom said he never had any intention of doing that.

“Tom took him to his friend’s house and Adam gave him his bank card and his phone which Tom later gave to the police.

“Adam told him to smash it up but Tom told me he had no intention of doing that.”

When Miss Kinchlea initially refused to believe what her former boyfriend of four-and-a-half-years told her, Fuller responded: “Have a look online, on News Shopper.”

The court also heard how Fuller and Miss Kinchlea lived together for two years and that Fuller’s dad died in June 2011.

Miss Kinchlea said: “Tom never raised his voice at me.

“He is the most genuine nicest person you could ever meet and anyone who meets him says how lovely he is.”

Another of Fuller’s friends, Rebecca Morgan, told jurors yesterday afternoon how Fuller called her at 7.15am the morning after Miss Jarvis was killed and repeatedly said he was “really scared.”

Miss Morgan initially thought “it was a bit of a sick joke” but only started to believe what Fuller told her when she heard about a “police incident in Swanley” on the radio.

Giving evidence, Miss Morgan said: “I did tell him that he should go forward to speak to the police.

“He said on numerous ocassions that he was very scared. He wasn’t very coherent in his speech.

“He knew that he had to go forward. I just think that he was really afraid.

“I constantly repeated ‘you need to go forward’ and told him that it would be OK as long as you go forward.”

Miss Morgan also told jurors how Fuller sent her a text message on the same day saying: “I don’t feel anything for Adam at all.”

When asked why Whelehan had stabbed the victim, Miss Morgan told the court: “He said something along the lines of because she was blackmailing him and threatening him.

“According to Tom, the blackmail involved pictures.”

Miss Morgan described Whelehan as “funny” and “decent” and said her friend Fuller, who she saw frequently, is “a decent, kind, generous person.”

The prosecution alleges Whelehan, of Roseberry Drive, Sidcup, murdered his 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.

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

The pair deny murder.

The trial continues.