A GRIEVING daughter has come face to face for the first time with the man accused of brutally murdering her elderly mum.

Doddie Edmonds was giving evidence in the case against Matthew Hamlen, who allegedly tortured the 77-year-old before battering her to death with a marble rolling pin.

In the witness box at Winchester Crown Court yesterday, Doddie repeatedly stared at Hamlen as she was asked questions about her mother and the things she owned.

But Hamlen failed to make eye contact, looking down or towards his solicitor and defence team.

It was the first time Doddie had laid eyes on the 33-year-old, who, prosecutors claim, repeatedly stabbed Mrs Edmonds as a form of torture in a bid to extract her cashcard PIN.

Hamlen is then alleged to have rained one or multiple blows to the grandmother-of-two’s head while she was on the kitchen floor of her cottage in Brambridge, near Eastleigh, leaving her dead in a pool of blood on January 11, 2008.

Hamlen, of Hamilton Road, Bishopstoke, denies murder.

Proceeding.