A CAR matching that of the man accused of killing Saints steward Paula Poolton was captured on CCTV driving toward the spot her body was found, a court has heard.

Jurors spent the morning at Winchester Crown Court watching footage taken from the night 40-year-old Paula went missing.

The court heard from Matthew Cass, an expert in identifying vehicles on CCTV, who analysed the footage taken from various locations including Sarisbury Green social club.

Images from a camera in the car park he said appeared to show a car pulling out of Painswick Close into Addison Road and then left onto Bridge Road at 9.30pm of October 17, 2008.

He said: "Based on the position of the tail lights and headlights, which is quite an unusual characteristic of a 4x4 vehicle, the vehicle is most likely a dark tone or black Mitsubishi Shogun Sport, manufactured after 1998."

The jury has previously been told that the accused, Roger Kearney, of Painswick Close, Sarisbury Green, owns a black Mitsubishi Shogun Sport.

It is the prosecution's case that he left his home that night at 9.30pm and not 10pm as he told police and drove toward Swanwick in the opposite direction to where he worked in Eastleigh to meet Paula.

They say it was at this meeting that he killed her before going to work at the Royal Mail depot beside Southampton Airport.

Kearney, 57, denies murdering his lover of three months, Paula of Course Park Crescent, Titchfield, who was found stabbed in the boot of her car just yards from Swanwick railway station.

Proceeding.