A MAN co-accused of murdering Swanley stab victim Natalie Jarvis has recalled his version of events in court.

Thomas Fuller, 23, of Oakley Drive, Eltham, was in the boot of Adam Whelehan’s car when Whelehan stabbed Miss Jarvis in Swanley Village.

Fuller today told Maidstone Crown Court he did not have much to do with Miss Jarvis until the stabbing on October 3.

Fuller, who has known Whelehan, also 23, of Roseberry Gardens, Sidcup, since the age of five, said he didn’t take Whelehan’s comments about killing Miss Jarvis seriously.

Asked when he first knew Whelehan and Miss Jarvis were involved in a relationship, Fuller said: “He rang me from the pub saying he had sex with Natalie and she was pregnant.

“He was drinking at the time. He was just saying ‘I can’t believe this is happening. I can’t be doing with this.’

“That was the first time that he said he wanted to kill Natalie. I didn’t take it seriously at all.”

When questioned why he decided to accompany Whelehan to meet Miss Jarvis, he said: “He asked me to go with him.

“He was saying that Natalie had slagged me and my Dad off the previous Saturday.

“I was a bit upset. It was a sensitive subject with me. I wasn’t crying but I wasn’t pleased. I was in the middle.”

Fuller had lost his father to cancer in June 2011.

He continued: “Adam was going to go down to meet Natalie. He said if I go with him she can’t know I’m there otherwise she won’t go out to meet him.

“He made a comment about me going in the boot of the car.”

Fuller added: “I don’t think he was very drunk. I know he had been in the pub for a couple of hours before we met him but I don’t think he was that drunk.

“I didn’t feel drunk at all. Maybe tired.”

While in the boot of the Renault Clio, Fuller sent a text message to his friend Bridie McCann saying: “It’s all got out of hand. I’m going to go down for this.”

Another message sent at around 10.30pm to Miss McCann said: “Nothing. It’s him. He’s gone mad.”

The next said: “I don’t know. He’s gonna do her.”

Fuller said he sent the messages because “that’s what he thought was happening.”

He said: “I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t expect him to leave Natalie’s house.

“When he did, he left the boot open. I tried to hold it down.”

Asked to recount exactly what happened, Fuller said: “I heard two doors open. I’m not sure who got out first.

“Then I hear Natalie’s voice saying ‘If there’s someone in the boot, I’m going to f***ing kill them.’ “By this time, I shut the boot completely. Then someone came to the back of the car.

“I heard ‘Adam, Adam, get off me.’ The first couple of times, it was in a playful jokey way and then she might have said it a third time but it was more serious.

“‘Get off me Adam.’ I didn’t hear Adam say anything.

“The voices started to drift away. I think I just froze in the boot for second. More than a second.

“I pushed the boot open. I looked down the rest of Button Street and saw Adam and Natalie at the end of the road.

“They were arm’s length apart. They were holding each other like that. Adam’s hands were on Natalie’s shoulders and Natalie’s hands were on Adam’s.

Asked if he saw any weapons, Fuller said: “I didn’t see anyone with anything in their hands.

“They seemed to be moving further down the road. I think I could hear Natalie saying ‘Get off me’ still but I couldn’t hear Adam saying anything.

“I think Natalie had a louder voice than Adam. She was ordering him to get off her.”

Fuller said he got out of the boot and into the driver’s seat.

He said: “Because I couldn’t see any weapons, I didn’t know. They went around the corner, I moved the car and thought the worst.”

Fuller sent another message at this point: “He’s done it. He’s f***ing done it. I’m alone in the car, get it?”

When asked what “it” was, Fuller said “stabbing Natalie, killing Natalie.”

He said Whelehan returned to the car with “blood all over his tracksuit bottoms and all over his face.”

Fuller said: “I asked him what happened. He said ‘I didn’t know my own strength. I pushed her down.

“I gave him a funny look. He showed me his hand was bleeding quite badly and he got his phone out and started texting.”

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

It is also alleged Fuller 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".

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.