Mr Wade said he never entered the Meadowfoot Road flat and, whenever Mr Coats went to see Ms Spence there, he waited in the car.

BBC: Lynda Spence

Mr Smith said that as he left the flat on the later occasion Mr Coats made a thumbs up sign and gestured as if he had something in his pocket.

BBC: Lynda Spence trial: Jurors hear torture 'evidence'

Jurors heard that during the first few days of her being held in the attic of the flat, Ms Spence told the witness that Coats had cut off the tip of her pinkie finger and crushed her little toe with loppers, which Mr Wade had brought with him in a bag.

BBC: Lynda Spence trial: Former murder accused gives evidence