"Body in a suitcase" murder trial - live updates (From Bournemouth Echo)

4:21pm

Court finishes for the day. 

4:21pm

Mr Anderson finishes giving evidence. 

3:41pm

Mr Lawrie puts it to Mr Anderson: "It is all lies."

he replies: "No it's not."

Mr Anderson denied making the story up to cover his own tracks.

3:40pm

The court hears that an attempt was made to withdraw £10 from Mr Reed's account by Mr Anderson. 

Mr Lawrie QC said: "It seems a little odd that you are trying to withdraw money out of a dead nan's account."

mr Anderson replied: "It does yeah."

3:32pm

Asked why he didn't go to the police earlier, Mr Anderson said: "I was scared."

3:03pm

Mr Anderson denied having seen Mr Reed's body in the lounge and denied suggesting putting the body in a suitcase. 

He also denied suggestions that he helped clean the flat to get rid of the evidence.

3:01pm

Asked under cross examination by Ian Lawrie QC, representing Stuart Wareham, why he hasn't told this to police in his first interview, Mr Anderson said: "I didn't want to believe it."

3:00pm

Mr Anderson said he later went back to the police to tell them Stuart Wareham had "confided" in him that he'd killed Mr Reed. 

"I asked why and he said that he strangled him for eight minutes and then put a screwdriver through his head."

2:50pm

End of video interview that was recorded on June 11, 2012.

2:45pm

Daniel Anderson said he last saw Geoffrey Reed at 6am on Thursday June 7 last year where he was asleep on the sofa as usual. 

2:38pm

Daniel Anderson added: "They've never cleaned the bathroom. Never. Not like that anyway."

2:37pm

Daniel Anderson told police he then went into the bathroom later and noticed how clean it was. 

2:36pm

Anderson told police he wanted to be "certain" before telling the police what he'd heard. 

"I didn't want to believe it as well mate to be honest with you. I just couldn't believe it."

2:35pm

He was asked to describe in detail the noises coming from the bathroom. 

"Now I think about it, it's like you got someone's legs being forced into a bath. 

Someone being dragged about."

2:31pm

Police asked Daniel Anderson to describe how the suitcase appeared. 

He said: "Making my stomach turn thinking about it, because now I think about it, it did look packed."

2:27pm

Daniel Anderson told police he heard Benjamin Henry Walter say: 'We had to drop the body off and walk all the way to his nan's to get a shovel.'

Anderson added: "It's like if someone says that you know what the hell they're doing and I heard, I don't know who said this because a it's mumbled, but 'three foot under'."

2:14pm

On Friday June 8 - overheard a conversation between Stuart Wareham and Lee Wareham

Heard Lee say - where did you bury? 

Heard Stuart say - near the shooting range, near the farm. It's not far from the road. 

2:11pm

Daniel Anderson's video interview continues. 

1:48pm

Break for lunch.

1:48pm

Daniel Anderson told police he left the flat and returned later that day and noticed the sofa and a mattress was out of place and a white rug had disappeared.

He said he was told Geoffrey had gone to Weymouth for a few days.

He also told police he saw Stuart Wareham with a suitcase in the lounge.

1:46pm

Recalling the events of June 7 last year, Daniel Anderson said he heard "unusual" noises coming from the bathroom in the flat.

"The noises got a bit loud and a bit unusual for noises to be happening in the bathroom."

He said the noises made him feel "uncomfortable".

He said he heard the shower go on and he attempted to open the bedroom door but someone was holding the handle up.

1:42pm

Daniel Anderson told police he'd heard Stuart Wareham had attacked Geoffrey Reed in March last year because he was a "child molester".

12:32pm

Next witness to give evidence is Daniel Anderson. A video of his police interview will be played to the court. 

He lived with Geoffrey Reed in his flat in Cecil Road in Boscombe at the time he died. 

12:04pm

Statements are now being read to the court about transactions on Geoffrey Reed's account at Nationwide Building Society in Boscombe - specifically on June 7 last year. 

12:03pm

Stanley Gill finishes giving evidence. 

12:00pm

Stanley Gill tells the court Lee sent him a text later that day saying: I have a problem, need to think about it.

Next heard from Lee on Saturday June 9,2012. 

11:54am

Next witness to give evidence is Stanley Gill.

Said he met a man calling himself Lee Collins in early June 2012 in Boscombe Gardens. 

Got to know Lee and gave him key to his flat.

Seen Lee with a dark grey back which had been left at his flat. 

Lee stayed at his flat on June 5 and 6. 

Took him into Boscombe on the morning of June 7.

11:44am

Paige Gardiner has finished giving evidence.

11:28am

Paige Gardiner said the flat was clean. 

Everything looked like it had a home and had been polished. 

The living room and sides had been cleaned and sofa hoovered. 

Said to Daniel Anderson, who also lived there, that he'd been busy cleaning. He'd said that as Geoff had gone to Weymouth it was a good excuse to clean. 

She said a couple of carpets had been removed from the flat and had been told that Stuart had got rid of it. 

11:21am

Went back to the flat on June 7, 2012 and noticed it was "spotless".

Stuart Wareham was there. He was smiling and listening to music. 

Paige Gardiner tells court she asked where Geoff was and it took them a while to answer. 

"And then Stuart turned round and said he's gone to Weymouth."

11:17am

On June 6, 2012, Stuart Wareham told her that he had taken Geoffrey Reed's bank card and stole quite a bit of money off him. 

"Also he was going to tell his sister to tell the police that Geoff touched her up so that Stuart could beat him up."

11:11am

Paige Gardiner said Stuart Wareham "didn't like Geoffrey Reed at all" and said: "He says he's a paedophile."

11:09am

Next witness is Paige Gardiner. 

She is giving evidence behind a screen. 

Says she knows Stuart Wareham through her sister and the night shelter. 

She met Geoffrey Reed in 2012 and visited his flat two or three times a week because her sister lived there. 

11:04am

Statement from Adrian Hurst who lived with Geoffrey Reed in February 2012. 

Told police Stuart Wareham stole money from Mr Reed and was being violent towards Mr Reed. 

He also told police he was aware of Stuart making threats towards Mr Reed. 

10:59am

Statement is read to the court about Geoffrey Reed's benefit claims. 

He was due to receive a benefit payment of £233.29 on June 8. But it didn't arrive in account until June 19, 2012. 

10:52am

The following day Geoffrey Reed told officers Stuart Wareham had apologised to him and he didn't want to take the matter any further, PC Fredriksen tells the court.

10:52am

The following day Geoffrey Reed told officers Stuart Wareham had apologised to him and he didn't want to take the matter any further, PC Fredriksen tells the court. 

10:52am

The following day Geoffrey Reed told officers Stuart Wareham had apologised to him and he didn't want to take the matter any further, PC Fredriksen tells the court.

10:47am

PC Fredriksen said Reed had told her he'd had some friends over the previous day, Stuart Wareham and two others.

They had drunk eight litres of cider.

Reed told her his friends had found some papers relating to his previous convictions and Stuart Wareham and Wayne Cooper had gone into his room asking him questions about these convictions.

PC Fredriksen said Reed initially said Wayne and Stuart had assaulted him but then changed his mind and said it was just Stuart who had assaulted him.

10:43am

PC Fredriksen visited Reed's flat on March 22, 2012, with another officer.

Noticed Reed had some injuries - a small cut to his nose close to the bridge of his glasses, bruise to the right hand side of the face, and two developing black eyes.

10:38am

The first witness to give evidence today is PC Jessica Fredriksen.

In 2012 she was responsible for managing sex offenders in the Bournemouth area.

Sex offenders have to attend a police station and give details of their address etc to a police.

10:28am

Good morning, Paula Roberts reporting on day two of the Geoffrey Reed murder trial at Winchester Crown Court.