The closing speech from the defence in the Clydach murder trial has told the jury that the case against David Morris is flawed and absurd.

Peter Rouch QC, said evidence from witnesses, who claimed the accused was wearing the gold chain found at the murder scene, on the night of the killings, is totally unsafe.

Mr Morris denies all the charges

He told the jurors that David Morris could not have left his chain at Kelvin Road and is not guilty of the four murder charges.

David Morris, 40, of Craig Cefn Parc, near Swansea, denies the brutal murders of Mrs Power, 34, her daughters, Katie, 10, and Emily, 8, and her 80-year-old mother, Doris Dawson.

The four were bludgeoned to death at their home in Kelvin Road in Clydach, near Swansea, three years ago in what the prosecution described as a "massacre".

Peter Rouch QC for the defence told the jury he was using substance not spin in his analysis of the evidence against David Morris.

On Wednesday, the prosecution counsel said the jury had to make a stark choice between David Morris and Mandy Power's lesbian lover Alison Lewis as to who killed the family of four.

Defendant David Morris claims Alison Lewis "probably" killed the family

Patrick Harrington QC, in his closing address for the prosecution, said they would never know exactly what happened at the murder scene.

But he said that if the victims could speak from beyond the grave, their voices would say 'Dai Morris did it.'

The prosecution has alleged Mr Morris carried out the murders in June 1999 after his sexual advances were allegedly spurned by Mrs Power and then set fire to the house to conceal his crime.

Earlier in the trial, the jury heard police found a gold necklace belonging to Mr Morris in a pool of Mrs Power's blood on the bedroom floor.

He claims he had given the necklace to Mrs Power in the days before the murders.

Previously, the jury at Swansea Crown Court had heard that Mr Morris believed the bisexual mother-of-two was "probably" murdered by Mrs Lewis.

The case continues.