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A jury is expected to retire today to consider its verdict in the trial of a 29-year-old man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend. Ipswich Crown Court...

Asked by his barrister Kier Monteith QC why 16 days later he had stabbed and strangled Miss Nash, Jessop replied: “Because of that medication.” Jessop claimed that Miss Nash had threatened to shoot him on an earlier occasion, with a gun he alleged she was holding for drug dealers, and that while they were in the toilet, he feared that if he didn’t kill her, she would kill him. On Tuesday, Mr Cotter delivered his closing speech on behalf of the prosecution. He told jurors that evidence given on the stand about Clare's lifestyle had been "quite literally a character assassination" by Je...

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 ...

Police vehicles in Brickfields Avenue, Newmarket. Picture: ARCHANT - 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 on Thursday Charles Jessop denied that he had invented previously seeing Claire 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, Newmarke...

Jessop, 30, of Bakers Row, Newmarket admits unlawfully killing 33-year-old mother-of-two Miss Nash in January last year. However, he denies murdering her by stabbing and strangling her in the toilet of her flat in Brickfields Avenue, Newmarket. The mechanic and former trainee jockey told the court that he had sought help from his GP for anxiety and depression and was prescribed the antidepressant drug Citalopram. Asked by Mr Monteith why after killing Miss Nash he he had made reference to schizophrenia, psychosis and needing to be "locked up in Broadmoor", Jessop said those were the "ext...