Swanley murder suspect Adam Whelehan 'taunted' Natalie Jarvis by breaking her phone

The prosecution alleges Whelehan, 23, of Roseberry Gardens, Sidcup, left Miss Jarvis for dead as she cried “I’m dying, please call my Mum.”

Miss Jarvis’ family broke down in tears as Mr Acheson said: “Were you taunting her by breaking her phone and refusing to let her use yours to get help?

“Is that how you felt about Natalie at this point?”

Whelehan told the jury at Maidstone Crown Court: “That’s sick. I wouldn’t do that.”

He added: “I don’t remember doing anything to her phone.”

The prosecution alleged: “You remember butchering this girl in Swanley Village don’t you?

“And denying her dying wish to speak to her mother?”

Mr Acheson added: “Were you frog-marching her down to her final resting place with the knife jabbing her in the throat?

Whelehan calmly repeated: “No, not at all.”

Mr Acheson asked: “Are you sorry for what’s happened? For who, you or Natalie?”

Whelehan replied: “Yeah, for her and her family. But that could have been me. That’s how I see it.”

Robert Acheson, prosecuting, asked Whelehan if he remembered the knife coming into contact with Miss Jarvis.

Whelehan said: ‘I don’t even remember the struggle.

“I can’t remember. I can’t answer why I can’t remember.”

He added he remembered having the multi-tool in his lap after getting back into the car with Tom Fuller in the driver’s seat, but does not recall what happened to the weapon.

He said: “I don’t know where it went. I wish I did. I would’ve said.”

Mr Acheson said: “Do you remember at which point she really did start bleeding?”

Whelehan replied: “No, not at all. I don’t remember anything after I got the knife.

“If I didn’t get hold of the knife, it would’ve been me.”

Mr Acheson added: “Are you telling the truth about what you remember?”

The prosecution alleges Whelehan’s memory loss is “convenient” to his case.

Mr Acheson said: “You have an inconvenient memory to that which is convenient to your case.”

Whelehan replied: “I wish I did remember then I could tell you.

“I just saw lots of blood and I ran off.”

The prosecution read a text message sent from Whelehan to his friends.

It read: “Done. Not lying. Covered in blood. So sorry I let you boys down.”

Whelehan said: “I don’t know what the text message means because I don’t remember sending it.”

When the prosecution asked him when his memory of the night began to fade, Whelehan said: “I don’t know.”

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 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.

It’s claimed 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".

Miss Jarvis was found dead on the ground in Swanley Village Road after suffering more than 20 stab wounds.

Whelehan and Fuller deny murder.

The trial continues.