MURDER accused Adam Whelehan gave evidence today to reveal details of his relationship with Swanley Village stabbbing victim Natalie Jarvis.

Whelehan, 23, of Roseberry Gardens, Sidcup, said Miss Jarvis pestered him for sex via text messages and he eventually agreed to “shut her up.”

He told the jury at Maidstone Crown Court that he had no intention of being in a relationship with Miss Jarvis, aged 23.

He said: “She went on quite a bit about wanting to meet up and I ignored her. In the beginning, it was just casual. Later on, she asked about meeting up and having sex.”

Talking about meeting up with Miss Jarvis in July last year, he said: “I didn’t want to so I would make excuses and say that I was doing something. I did nothing to lead her on.”

He met face to face with Miss Jarvis on July 9.

Whelehan said: “She (Miss Jarvis) got in contact with me again when my relationship status on Facebook changed in June."

Whelehan said he had been in a relationship with Leanne Gardener from January until December of 2011 and then with Tara Baker until the summer of 2012. During that time, he said there was no contact between him and Miss Jarvis.

He said: “She had come out of a relationship with someone called Sean. I didn’t know him. She mentioned that she was angry that he got her pregnant and persuaded her to have an abortion because he had a girlfriend.”

When defense counsel Sasha Wass QC asked if Whelehan intended to have sex with Miss Jarvis on July 9, he said "yes".

He said: “I had an idea that it would happen. I didn’t want to particularly but I thought I would do it to shut her up in a way.

“From what she had said, that was all she was after. She had pestered me before. I thought that if I did it, it would stop.

“I picked her up from her house in the evening. It was about 8 or 9 o’clock.”

Whelehan described his intention to “meet and talk and have sex.”

He said they had unprotected sex in his car in Button Street, Swanley.

“She told me after her abortion that she had an implant fitted. I should have used a condom, but I didn’t.”

He described the end of the evening ending in an argument.

Whelehan said: “There was an argument because I said about meeting up with other girls. She got upset and started kicking off. She sent me a text about me having no morals and no respect."

On July 13, Whelehan said he received messages from Miss Jarvis saying she was pregnant.

He said: “She sent me picture message of a test she had already done that was positive.

“I never had sex with her again. She asked about it quite often. She seemed to want sex rather than to get along.”

Whelehan added he received more than 120 text messages from Miss Jarvis a day.

“If I didn’t reply, she would kick off.”

Whelehan has admitted killing Miss Jarvis in "lawful self defence".

The prosecution alleges Whelehan murdered her because he "wanted out of the relationship and the only way out he could see was to kill her".

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

The court has heard Whelehan picked up Miss Jarvis from her home with friend Fuller hiding in the boot of his car at about 10.30pm on October 3 last year.

He drove to a country lane car park in Swanley Village before getting out with Miss Jarvis about 10.50pm and "by the time he returned to the car, then driven by Fuller, she lay dead".

The trial continues.