Caroline Evans was six months pregnant when she was shot

Caroline Evans, 27, was killed in the Red Lion pub in Llangadog, west Wales, by farmer Will Davies, who was "obsessed" with her, according to witnesses.

The body of Davies, 59, was found with a shotgun wound to the head lying next to Miss Evans in the pub's back room.

The Carmarthen inquest heard that months before the shootings Davies had threatened Miss Evans with a shotgun.

In a statement, she made to police at the time she said: "Will told me: 'I won't see 60 and you won't see 28.'

In this case there has not been and will not be a criminal trial. There is no one still alive to prosecute Coroner John Owen

"Will said: 'I will blow your brains out, we'll go together.'"

"I asked him: 'Are you threatening me?' and he replied :'I'm not threatening you I'm telling you'."

Davies was a regular customer at the Red Lion in Llangadog, near Carmarthen, west Wales.

'Unlawfully killed'

Carmarthenshire Coroner John Owen told the inquest jury: "In this case there has not been and will not be a criminal trial. There is no one still alive to prosecute."

He added: "It is probable in respect of Mr Davies you may consider he killed himself and in Miss Evans' case you may consider whether you should return a verdict that she was unlawfully killed."

Miss Evans was opening up for business in February of last year when Davies shot her at point blank range before turning the gun on himself.

The farmer had been taken to court just months previously for threatening Miss Evans with a shotgun, but charges of making threats to kill were dropped in favour of lesser charges at Ammanford Magistrates Court.

Miss Evans' father, retired vet David Evans, called for an inquiry after the deaths, saying the more serious charge should have been pursued.

Barmaid Jane Southard told how Miss Evans was harassed.

He was obsessed with her and would often sit at the bar and stare Barmaid Jane Southard

"He would often come and park outside the pub," she said.

"Caroline and I thought there was no point in reporting it because if he was not going to get done for threatening her with a shotgun he wouldn't get done for parking outside the pub.

"He was obsessed with her and would often sit at the bar and stare at her.

"He claimed he was in a sexual relationship with her but I'm sure he was not. She and I were very close and she would have told me if she was having an affair with him."

Miss Southard, from Llangadog, told the inquest the father of the baby was a pub landlord from another part of Wales. Caroline became pregnant after the couple had a fling on a publicans' trip to Paris, she said.

She also told how she discovered Caroline's body lying in a pool of blood next to that of Davies.

"I arrived at the pub and saw Will's car in the archway outside," she said.

"The front passenger seat had been tilted forward. I knew he had got something from the back and immediately thought it was a gun.

"I went in to the pub and crept around the corner. I saw two bodies on the floor. At that point I ran out shouting: 'He's killed her, he's killed her'.

"I went back in to check if she was still alive. I checked her wrist but noticed there was no pulse and there was a big pool of blood under her head."

Later in the inquest farmer Nigel Bruce said his friend had stopped taking his psychiatric medication in the days leading up to the shootings.

"Two days before the killings Mr Davies said he was complaining of a headache and had stopped taking his medication," he explained.

"I saw him again the next day. He was ranting and raving and said:"If you see that bitch Caroline tell her I will slit her throat'. "

Mr Bruce said he advised Davies to go to the doctor, but he refused.

He also told the inquest that Davies did not have his permission to use the gun, which had noticed was missing from his bedroom.

Mr Bruce said Davies had earlier claimed he was having an affair with Miss Evans. He said: "I remember him saying the baby could be his. But I don't think he had a sexual relationship with her. I think a lot of it was in his mind and a figment of his imagination."

The inquest in Carmarthen continues and is expected to last four days.