Jane Hunt Clare Nash died in her flat in Brickfields, Newmarket - Credit: Archant A former trainee jockey who claims he stabbed and strangled his former girlfriend because he feared she would shoot him if he didn’t kill her has denied lying about her having a gun. Giving evidence during his trial at Ipswich Crown Court, Charles Jessop denied that he had invented previously seeing Clare Nash with a gun in her house to explain his actions. Jessop told the court that two months before he allegedly murdered 33-year-old Miss Nash in a toilet at her flat in Brickfields, Newmarket she had shown him a black handgun wrapped in plastic that had been hidden in a wardrobe.