The man accused of murdering Bournemouth seamstress Heather Barnett has denied hugging her children after they found her body was a 'repulsive charade'.

Danilo Restivo, a thirty-nine year old Italian national, has taken to the stand this week to deny killing the forty-eight year old in 2002.

Restivo's admitted to secretly cutting the hair of women, a trait which the prosecution have linked to the murders of Heather and Elisa Claps in Italy in 1993.