00:00This is the Mount Gambier home where police allege Stephen Leslie Hainsworth
00:04bashed to death Stephen Newton in 2011. The court heard the pensioner's body was
00:09found several weeks after the alleged killing, with rubbish and cannabis strewn
00:13over his body. His home had been ransacked. Mr Hainsworth is also accused
00:19of murdering Phyllis Harrison in 1998 and Beverly Hanley in 2010 in Adelaide.
00:25The court previously heard he was allegedly motivated by stealing and
00:29selling off valuables in each alleged victim's home. The accused's ex-girlfriend
00:33giving evidence on Friday saying she attended Mr Newton's home with the
00:38accused saying we knocked on the door, Steve Hainsworth put his foot in the
00:42door, Mr Newton grabbed my hair, there was a scuffle. She said she saw Mr
00:47Hainsworth bash the alleged victim's head and later observed he wasn't
00:51breathing. Telling the court, the accused said he needed to return to Mr Newton's
00:56home to clean up the evidence. He told me not to open my mouth or we'd go to the
01:01pines, she told the court. When asked if she feared the accused, Ms Evans said yes
01:06because he had already murdered someone, he could do it again. Under cross
01:10examination, Mr Hainsworth's defense lawyer put to the witness that the
01:15accused's threats to bury her in the pines was actually related to Stephen
01:19cheating on him and that she'd seen Mr Hainsworth's friend murder Mr Newton.
01:24Ms Evans disagreed with both submissions. The trial continues.
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