FORMER prostitute Katie Gilmore was at the centre of a love triangle involving Mr Suller and his killer.

The murderer’s girlfriend admitted playing the pair off against each other and said she used Mr Suller for his money.

The 27-year-old, who started taking Valium since the age of eight, described how Mr Suller "hated" Bowyer and warned her to stay away from him because he was "evil".

The mother-of-one regularly told the former cash and carry worker she loved him, wanted to have sex with him - "whatever I had to say" so he would continue to fund her drug habit.

She even told him Bowyer, 38, of Llanon House, Croesyceiliog, was gay because she knew he didn't like her seeing him.

Miss Gilmore, who is also known by the surname Whitbread, met former Dr Who extra, Mr Suller, when working as a prostitute in a Newport brothel, which he designed a website for.

He once paid for an hour of her time but she said he didn’t want sex and only wanted to talk.

The father-of-two wanted to clean her up and get her off the drugs and showered her with flowers, text messages and letters, telling her he loved her and wanted to marry her.

Weeks later he came to her aid when she was abducted by a former partner for three days, and then stayed with her for nine hours in a police station while she gave police a statement.

They went on one date, and although the pair had sex on a few occasions when she was high on drugs, they did not have a sexual relationship.

He asked her to marry him and they even gave legal notice of their intention to get married at Torfaen register office, but never showed up to the ceremony.

Miss Gilmore met Mr Suller’s two daughters and described him as a "brilliant dad" and said she although she wasn’t in love with him, she loved him as a person - like a father figure.

The former heroin addict met Bowyer on a drug rehabilitation course a few months after meeting Mr Suller and the pair struck up a relationship.

After a stint at London’s Holloway prison she was released on tag early in 2011, on the condition she slept each night at Mr Suller’s house.

But she broke this within days of her release after Bowyer came to collect her.

She admitted he didn't like her seeing Mr Suller, and was jealous of the flowers and letters he wrote her.

But he tolerated it because of the money he gave her, which they used to buy food and heroin.

The court heard Bowyer would often visit Mr Suller's Harold Street home in Pontnewydd, "shouting his mouth off" and had to be taken away by police.

She told how she had always been in violent relationships, and while things with Bowyer were good to begin with they argued "like every couple" and things often got violent - with him once dragging her down the street by her hair.

Miss Gilmore stayed with Mr Suller the Friday and Saturday before he died, after he collected her from hospital after Bowyer assaulted her.

But on September 5 she was back with Bowyer and back on the drugs.

The next thing Mis Gilmore claims to remember is being woken by police who arrested her in connection with Mr Suller’s death.

She was later released without charge.