“If you don’t help tidy up you will be next.”

That’s what a woman accused of torturing a young man to death claimed her co-accused Lee Nicholls said to her after she discovered the gruesome sight of 24-year-old Jamie Dack’s body.

In a statement read out at Winchester Crown Court Donna Chalk, said: “Lee stood there waving a knife around. I was crying. I didn’t know what to do. One part of me was saying just ring the police.”

Chalk then said she thought about fleeing the scene with another co-accused Andrew Dwyer-Skeats.

She said: “I have never been in this situation where I had seen a dead body lying on the floor of a boy who used to help me a lot.

“Lee turned round and said to us that if we didn’t help tidy up then we’d be the same as Jamie.

“I just sat there. I just froze- I physically couldn’t move.”

Jamie’s body was found burning in a bin on Easter Sunday.

Chalk, 21, and Dwyer-Skeats, 26, both of Bevois Mews, Southampton, Nicholls, 28, from Southampton Street, and Ryan Woodmansey, 32, of no fixed abode all deny murder.

The three men admit to perverting the course of justice by disposing of and setting fire to Jamie’s body.

Chalk denies that charge.

Proceeding.

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