THE jury has gone out in the Natalie Jarvis murder trial at Maidstone Crown Court this morning.

Jurors retired to consider their verdicts at 10.55am.

Adam Whelehan, 23, of Roseberry Avenue in Sidcup, and Tom Fuller, 23, of Oakley Drive in Eltham, are accused of her murder.

Both defendants deny murdering Miss Jarvis, who was found dead on the ground in Swanley Village Road on October 3 last year.

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

During the trial, jurors have heard Whelehan picked up Miss Jarvis from her home with his best friend Fuller hiding in the boot of his car at about 10.30pm.

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".

Whelehan has admitted killing Miss Jarvis, but claims it was in “lawful self-defence”.

Miss Jarvis, aged 23, was found dead after suffering more than 20 stab wounds.

It is also alleged Fuller was the “getaway driver”.

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