“LOOK I am a petty crook, this is way beyond me.”

Those were the words of the man accused of stabbing to death mum of five Pennie Davis when he handed himself into police and was arrested for her murder.

Winchester Crown Court heard how Justin Robertson walked into Southampton Central police station with his solicitor, a week after the supermarket worker was found dead in a field, near Beaulieu.

His interviews with police were read out to the jurors, during which he continued to deny any involvement in the murder of the 47-year-old from Blackfield.

He said: “I have got no reason to kill this woman, no reason whatsoever.”

He later added: “Some people describe me as ‘a rogue’.“Nobody will describe me as someone involved in a murder, that’s just not my thing.”

He admitted to police he had got caught for “robbing all sorts” in the past but said there was “no way” he was responsible for Pennie’s murder.

When asked by police why he was in Beaulieu on the day of the murder, just yards from the paddock where Pennie was found with multiple stab wounds, he said he was having a “look for a couple of earners”.

He added: “I was having a mooch, to go and look for things and then in the night time you go back and rob it.”

When police asked him if he could explain how the keys of Samantha Maclean’s car - the car he admitted he used to get to Beaulieu - were found by Pennie’s body, Robertson said “I really don’t know”.

He even admitted he cut across the field but never went into the paddock and never saw Pennie dead or alive.

He told police in the interviews he wasn’t aware he was “wanted” by police until Saturday, September 6, when he bumped into a friend and was told.

xhead He said he was scared, so disappeared for a couple of days, before he handed himself in a few days later.

He told police he got rid of the trainers he was wearing on the day Pennie was murdered because they were his “earning” trainers, which he had worn when committing some burglaries.

He said after giving them to a neighbour of his friend to put in the rubbish, he got his girlfriend Lian Doyle to get them back and he then deliberately left them on a bus.

When asked in the interviews about how he knew Ben Carr, he said he was an “associate”.

The officer asked him if he knew him through drugs and he said: “Everyone knows me through drugs.”

When asked if he knew that Pennie was Carr’s former step-mum, Robertson said: “On my boy’s life and my mother’s ashes, the first I knew was when you mentioned it earlier.”

Asked if he ever discussed Pennie with Carr, he said no.

Robertson, 36, is charged with murder and conspiracy to murder.

Carr, 22, of Edward Road, and Samantha Maclean, 28, of Beech Crescent, are charged with conspiracy to murder.

They all deny the charges.

Proceeding.