A MAN accused of the murder of Caroline Coyne denied he had taken anything from her the night he was alleged to have killed her.
Carl Powell was asked today during his evidence at his trial, if he had taken the 28-year-old's shoe, to which he replied "I didn't take nothing from her".
Stuart Rafferty QC, for the prosecution, asked him if the shoe had come off during a struggle, but Powell denied he struggled with her.
"Did you take her shoe from her and dispose of it?" asked Mr Rafferty.
"I haven't took nothing from her," replied Powell, 23, of Carlton.
Prosecutors say Powell murdered her and attacked a second woman, a 21-year-old in Carlton Road, one month later.
When her fully-clothed body was found on a pathway by a couple's home in Thorneywood Mount, Thorneywood, at 8.40am on Saturday, July 23 last year, her right shoe was missing.
At the start of his evidence on Thursday, Powell had denied all the allegations made against him, as they were put to him in a series of questions by his defence barrister, Shaun Smith QC.
Mr Smith asked: "When you first saw her that evening, did you have any thoughts about killing her?"
Powell replied: "No."
Ms Coyne was found dead in Thorneywood Mount, Thorneywood, on July 23, 2011. Powell denies murder and three allegations which relate to a second woman – false imprisonment, false imprisonment with intent to commit a sexual offence and sexual assault.
The trial continues.
