JURY members heard evidence from one of the friends who spent the hours before Nikitta Grender's death with Ryan Mayes and Carl Whant.

Daniel Matthews watched the first half of the Wales v England match at Mr Mayes' mother's house on February 4 last year, with Whant and Mr Mayes, before joining them on the city centre night out.

Mr Matthews told the court he had been drinking and taking cocaine, but was not "out of his skull" and knew what he was doing.

He said he had not seen Whant get into any altercations or fights during the evening and did not see any injuries on Whant.

Mr Matthews said at the house party he went into a bedroom with Miss Henson and was woken up by Christopher Lewis shouting at them in the morning that he had to go to work.

He said Mr Mayes did not make advances towards another girl as she was already in a relationship and Mr Mayes was with Miss Grender.

Mr Mayes' ex-girlfriend Laura McClaren told the court she and Mr Mayes had sex in the same room as Whant once, but rejected defence counsel Christopher Kinch's claims that Whant joined them.

The court also heard further evidence from police support officers responsible for gathering CCTV footage of Whant's movements in the hours before Miss Grender's death.

David Rees, an assistant enquiry officer based at Ystrad Mynach as part of Gwent Police's major incident team, told the court he visited the Autocentre Garage on Queens Hill on January 23 this year to view CCTV footage.

He said the footage was displayed a screen in the officer with eight smaller images, two of which looked out on to the road.

The court heard that from the smaller images the cameras did not show much of a view of the road, but the images could be enlarged to a full screen size where a clear view of the road was visible.

Mr Rees said he knew the cameras offered a view of the road from previous investigations, but could not explain why footage had not been seized from the garage.

Alison Temby (CORR), who works as a video unit officer for Gwent Police's support team, told the court she was responsible for compiling and editing CCTV footage seized from The Greyhound pub in Newport, seizing footage from Maindee Police Station and also calculating some of the discrepancies between the time on the CCTV footage and the actual time the footage was filmed.

Johanna Rafferty, another support officer, told the court she was responsible for compiling CCTV stills sequences for the investigation and also calculated some of the time discrepancies.