THE daughter of a woman allegedly "bludgeoned" to death told police her mother had left her a will in case she was "killed" by her bigamist husband, a court has heard.

Lu Yao, 19, told a jury at Winchester Crown Court that when her mother Rui Li had started rock climbing in 2013, the Poole nurse had left a written document leaving her "money and property" in case she was pushed from a mountain top.

Prosecutors allege that the Chinese national was killed by husband Pierre Legris at their home in Burnham Drive, Bournemouth, on May 23 2014.

Legris, 61, denies the charge, but admits that he was married to first wife Irene Smith when he also married the Poole nurse in 2007.

Ms Li's partially-clothed body was found in the boot of a Punto parked in Verwood Crescent on May 30 last year.

A film of Miss Yao giving an interview to police officers on Tuesday, May 27 - the day Legris reported Ms Li missing - was shown to the court this morning.

In the film, Miss Yao said she had become "nervous, scared, worried" when her mother disappeared.

She told officers: "When mum gave me the will when she first started going climbing it said, 'If Pierre kills me you get the money and you get the property'."

She added that she did not believe her mother was serious, and said Pierre Legris had helped to rescue her when she fell from a cliff and into the sea in Purbeck in November of 2013.

"She said it was the worst-case scenario because if you were high in the mountains what if he just decided to push [her] so [she] fell and it was completely believable by other people," she said.

A later interview given by Miss Yao hours before the discovery of her mother's body was also shown.

During the interview, which took place after the arrest of Pierre Legris on suspicion of murder, the teenager - speaking softly with her arms wrapped around herself - alleged that the defendant had often "put her down".

"[He'd] say,' You're so stupid' and, 'How do you not know this? It's general knowledge. What do you go to school for?'," she said.

The young woman also discussed an alleged massage business provided by Pierre Legris and her mother at their second home in Wolverton Road.

Prosecutors allege that Ms Li, a masseuse, occasionally offered sexual services to some of the men who visited for a massage.

It is claimed that at some point, Pierre Legris joined in with these services.

Miss Yao said: "I think she did it for about two weeks.

"I didn't know anything at the time until Pierre told me she was doing more than massage. I said, 'How do you know?' And he said once he put a little video camera in [the room] to record it."

The cause of Ms Li's death was a traumatic head injury, and Mr Lickley alleges that she was "bludgeoned" to death by her husband for her life insurance.

Jonathan Legris, 27, of Spring Road, denies conspiracy to commit murder and assisting an offender.

His mother, Irene Smith, 66 and of St Clement's Road, denies conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of perverting the course of justice.