TRACIE Andrews, the woman accused of the brutal roadside murder of fiance Lee Harvey went into the witness box today told a jury that she was not guilty of murder.
Andrews, 28, wearing a turquoise and purple checked fitted woollen jacket and long navy blue pleated skirt, began giving evidence on the tenth day of her trial at Birmingham Crown Court.
Andrews, stood at the front of the modern wood-panelled court next to a packed press bench and just 15ft from where Mr Harvey's parents, Ray and Maureen, sat in the public gallery with other members of the family.
After she took the oath she was asked first by her defence councel, Mr Ronald Thwaites QC: “Did you kill Lee Harvey?”
She replied in a firm voice: “No, I did not.”
Andrews, who denies murdering Mr Harvey on December 1 last year at Coopers Hill, near the home the couple shared in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, had walked purposefully from the dock of the court to take her place in the witness box.