A look back at the key events in the case of Natalie Jarvis, who was murdered in Swanley Village.

May 24, 2008

Adam Whelehan was present at Metro Bar, in Station Road, Sidcup, the night Harry Potter actor Robert Knox was murdered outside. The court heard he met Natalie Jarvis a week later in a local pub through mutual friends. The two discussed attending Mr Knox’s funeral and exchanged phone numbers. Adam Whelehan did not eventually attend the funeral.

June, 2012

Whelehan breaks up with his girlfriend and changes his relationship status on Facebook. Miss Jarvis resumes contact with him and he told the court she did so after she noticed the change in his relationship status online.

July 9, 2012

Whelehan met with Miss Jarvis and had unprotected sex with her in his car in a car park in Button Street.

When defense counsel Sasha Wass QC asked if Whelehan intended to have sex with Miss Jarvis that night, 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."

July 13, 2012

Whelehen said he received a text message from Miss Jarvis telling him she was pregnant.

He told the court: “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.”

Home Office pathologist Peter Jerreat later told jurors Miss Jarvis was not pregnant at the time of her death.

July 23, 2012

Whelehan posts on Twitter: "It’s alright to kill someone these days, isn’t it? Think I might do that.” When asked about the message on court, he said: "I don’t think it was in reference to anyone. At that stage, a lot of people were killing people and getting away with it. Obviously, that’s sarcastic.”

July 24, 2012

Whelehan posted on Twitter messages reading: "Waiting for the end to come.

"Wishing I had the strength to stand.

"This is not what I planned.

"This is out of my control"

August 6, 2012

Whelehan posts on Twitter: "How do you do it? #murderous mind." After the tweet was read out in court by defence counsel Sasha Wass QC, he told jurors: “All the pressure was getting too much. It was a stupid figure of speech.

"I started to drink quite a bit more too. Either at work I would go to the pub at lunch and I would drink some beers and then go back to work or go home because I couldn't concentrate."

September 6, 2012

Fuller texts Whelehan saying: “Just f***ing stab the c*** or something.”

Whelehan’s responds: “Need to. She’s a p***k.”

September 17, 2012

Fuller sends a message on Twitter to Whelehan saying: "the end is nigh jc, the end is nigh."

JC was a reference to Whelehan and Fuller thinking Miss Jarvis looked like actor James Corden.

When quizzed about this message in court, Whelehan said: "I thought she was pregnant but also thought she might not be."

September 19, 2012

Whelehan tells Fuller via text message that he is 'doing JC in tomorrow.'

 

 

When asked about these text messages, Whelehan told the court: "She had different shifts. I would not have stabbed her in McDonalds."

September 21, 2012

When Fuller asks Whelehan if he has heard from Miss Jarvis, he says via text message: "She is on late on Monday until 11pm so I'll do it then."

Defence counsel Sasha Wass QC asked Whelehan what this meant and he said: "I think that means talk to her. Talk to her about it all and sort it out. It was going to try and make it civil really."

September 30, 2012

10.40pm: Text from Fuller to Whelehan: “Kill anyone tonight?”

Whelehan to Fuller: “No, only in my mind.”

October 1, 2012

Whelehan met Miss Jarvis on this evening and drove her, along with her friend Chelsea, to Burger King.

At 11.46pm Miss Jarvis, who was by this time alone with Whelehan, posted on her Facebook page: "I have been kidnapped. Can someone come and rescue me?”

When this Facebook post was mentioned in court, Whelehan said: "It is not particuarly the sort of thing you put on Facebook. Natalie and me were talking and started arguing. She decided to start saying about kidnap. She actually rung Chelsea to say Adam has kidnapped me."

Whelehan texted Fuller later that night saying: “I wanted to do it so I kept driving around, but then she said that. Had my knife ready and everything.”

October 3, 2012

Whelehan speaking about the day of Miss Jarvis' death: “All that day I was just getting abuse. That wasn’t unusual. It was the same every day, just constant texting. I wanted to be able to enjoy myself and have fun. She wanted a text back though.”

Prosecutor Ian Acheson to Whelehan, about October 3: “We know at the end of that evening that Natalie Jarvis was dead. You were involved in an incident in Button Street during which a multi-tool knife was used.”

6.30pm: CCTV shows Whelehan and Fuller at Ruxley Park Golf Club, in Sidcup.

8.24pm: Whelehan and Fuller leave Ruxley Park Golf Club.

8.45pm: Both men arrive at the Tailor’s Chalk Pub, in Sidcup High Street. Giving evidence, Whelehan said: “I don’t remember being at the Tailor’s Chalk that night.”

9.21pm: Whelehan and Fuller leave the Tailor’s Chalk and head towards the Portrait Pub. Whelehan told the court: “I remember a bit of the Portrait but I have no recollection of what was said.”

9.41pm: Whelehan texted Miss Jarvis - 90-days after their previous sexual encounter - and says "Come on, let's f***." When asked what his intentions were that evening, Whelehan told the court: "It was my intention to talk and f***. That was what she wanted. I thought if I said that we could talk and f*** then we could meet.”

9.46pm: Text from Steven Hughes to Matthew Woods (friends of Whelehan's): "He still with ya?"

9.47pm: Matthew Woods to Steven Hughes: "Yeah, not for long though."

9.48pm: Steven Hughes to Matthew Woods: "Fair enough. What you reckon on this?"

9.53pm: Matthew Woods to Steven Hughes: "Right now I hope he does it."

Woods told the court “he did not remember” sending the texts “because he was extremely drunk."

When asked what the text exchange meant, Mr Woods said: “That I hope he was going to kill her, by the looks of it.”

Hughes told the jury: “In the heat of the  moment we hoped he would because we could see how upset he was and how it was affecting his life."

10.10pm: CCTV shows Whelehan and Fuller leaving the toilets at the Portrait Pub, in Sidcup High Street. When asked what the pair talked about in the toilets, Whelehan said: “I discussed the way I had been all day and all the abuse and how all of a sudden she wants me to pick her up. I said that I thought it felt quite dodgy.”

10.30pm: A police automatic number plate recognition vehicle clocks Whelehan’s red Renault Clio hatchback travelling on Maidstone Road towards Swanley.

10.32pm: Whelehan texts Miss Jarvis saying “Outside.” One minute later Miss Jarvis replies “Two mins.” At the same time Fuller texts a photograph of himself in the boot of the car to his friend Bridie McCann.

Whelehan's red Renault Clio then travels towards a secluded car park in Button Lane and at 10.50pm, Whelean and Miss Jarvis get out of the car.

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

10.54pm: CCTV footage shows the Renault Clio leaving Button Street.

11.00pm: Whelehan texts his friends Steven Hughes and Matt Woods saying: "It’s done, not lying, I’m covered in blood man, So sorry I let you boys down."

11.26pm: Paramedics reach Miss Jarvis, who was found face down, half on the road and half on the pavement, by passer-by Ben Samuel. Prosecutor Ian Acheson explained how Mr Samuel: "Pulled her onto her back, an ambulance was called, and Mr Samuel tried to resuscitate her. He thought she was dead."

Ambulance crews immediately noticed two substantial wounds to her beck.

11.29pm: Responding to the text received from Whelehen at 11pm, Matthew Woods texted Steven Hughes saying: “Yes!!! Have you received the same message?"

Steve Hughes to Matthew Woods: “I don’t know what to say mate.”

11.30pm: Miss Jarvis was pronounced dead.

11.37pm: Whelehan and Fuller arrive at Tesco Express in Eltham High Street after picking up Matthew Woods from Sidcup High Street. Blood-stained Whelehan stays in car and hands his credit card to Woods and Fuller.

October 4, 2012

Midnight: Mr Woods, Fuller and Whelehan park up close to Mr Hughes’ house in Eltham and meet Mr Hughes who had been babysitting his child. They stand around drinking and smoking.

12.30am: Mr Hughes returns home and Fuller, Whelehan and Mr Woods get into the car. Fuller drives and drops off Mr Woods at his home.

3.00am: Adam Whelehan hands himself in at Bexleyheath police station and says he "thought he had killed someone in the Swanley area.”

Prosecutor Ian Acheson said Whelehan did not know Miss Jarvis was dead or alive after handing himself into Bexleyheath police station but said "he had slashed her neck and left her.”

7.15am: Fuller texts his friend Rebecca Morgan saying 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.

October 5, 2012

Adam Whelehan is charged with murdering Miss Jarvis.

October 11, 2012

Police arrest Tom Fuller in Eltham.

October 12, 2012

Tom Fuller is also charged with murdering Miss Jarvis.

February 6, 2013

Whelehan and Fuller plead not guilty to murdering Miss Jarvis during a plea and case management hearing at Maidstone Crown Court.

April 3, 2013

The murder trial begins at Maidstone Crown Court.