HANNAH Foster was "frightened out of her wits, frightened for her life" on the night she was allegedly abducted by Maninder Pal Singh Kohli, a court heard this morning.

Cross examining the 41-year-old, prosecutor Nicholas Haggan QC said Kohli knew exactly what happened to Hannah on the night she disappeared but had substituted her ordeal as his own.

Mr Haggan said: "You told the jury exactly what happened to Hannah but you substituted you for her.

"You have told the jury what you did to her, not what happened to you."

Mr Haggan continued: "You described how you were bundled into a car but in fact what happened is that you bundled that young girl into your van."Kohli replied: "No."

Mr Haggan said: "You've learned your lines, haven't you? You have had five and a half years to make up a story haven't you, and you have learnt it line by line."

Kohli denied the accusation, telling the jury he had spent 51 months and 29 days in a prison.

Tallking about Hannah on the night of March 14, 2003 Mr Haggan asked "did she sound a little scared?"

To which Kohli replied: "I did not hear a thing."

Mr Haggan said: "You have told the jury you thought she was a working girl, a prostitute, rather than a 17-year-old girl who had been abducted from the street and who was scared out of her wits for her life."

Mr Haggan then suggested it was strange that Kohli had been abducted by three men who wanted him to have sex with a girl.

Kohli said he couldn't answer why they had made him do it, he could only tell what happened to him.

Mr Haggan continued: "It just so happened that Hannah had been abducted from almost the same spot that you had been.

"Abducted from almost the same place that you had been, by a different gang of men, on the very same evening, at almost exactly the same time.

"A second gang of men who apparently borrowed your Rockfield van for the purpose."

Kohli replied: "I have no idea."

Mr Haggan then accused Kohli of giving "a completely fabricated account" and said he was having difficulty giving evidence without smiling.

After asking his interpreter to explain the meaning of smiling, Kohli said: "I was a broken man the last five years. I am standing here for a thing I didn't do."

Kohli denies the abduction, false imprisonment, rape and murder of 17-year-old Hannah.