The action thriller Armageddon has become the focus of the defence case in the Clydach murder trial.

Swansea Crown Court was told that a copy of the Bruce Willis video, posted through the letterbox of murder victim Mandy Powell hours before she died, was later found at the home of her lesbian lover.

Mr Morris denies all the charges

Final defence witness Louise Pugh, 19, told the court she returned the borrowed tape to her neighbour's house in Kelvin Road, Clydach, south Wales - the scene of the brutal murders of Mrs Power and her family three years ago.

The same film was later found at the home of former policewoman and martial arts expert Alison Lewis, who had been having an "intense" lesbian affair with Mrs Power.

Next-door neighbour Miss Pugh told the court she called round to Mrs Power's house on the evening of 26 June, 1999.

In the early hours of the following morning, the battered bodies of Mrs Power, 34, children Katie, 10, Emily, eight and her mother Doris Dawson, 80, were discovered.

Letterbox

David Morris, 40, of nearby Craigcefnparc, has denied carrying out the brutal killings, described in court as a "massacre".

Miss Pugh, the jury heard, was unable to explain why she had not mentioned the fact that she had posted the video through Mrs Power's letterbox for 15 months, despite making a series of statements.

The print was a 'better match' to Alison Lewis

Miss Pugh, who was a close friend of Mrs Power, also denied telling lies because she disliked Alison Lewis.

On Monday, proceedings were halted when Miss Pugh stormed out of the court, furious at the way she was being cross-examined.

She returned to give evidence on Tuesday, and apologised for the way she had spoken about the prosecution team.

Patrick Harrington QC, prosecuting, said: "In the first 15 months when you made a series of statements there was no mention of the video."

"Changed" memory

Miss Pugh: "I had a lot to remember and I cannot remember it all at once."

Mr Harrington suggested that Miss Pugh's memories had changed, not improved.

"I suggest that you have told the police different things at different times, thinking that you were helping to build a case against Alison Lewis, and that you would have said almost anything," he said.

The home in Kelvin Road was burnt out

Later on Tuesday the defence in the murder trial concluded its case.

The final evidence in the 10-week trial came from a woman who told the jury that she saw a man near the murder scene on the night of the killings.

The court heard that she later identified him as Stephen Lewis, a policeman and the former husband of Alison Lewis, who was at one time a suspect in the case

The defence has now completed its case, and the judge is expected to complete his summing up in the next few days.