A MAN and a woman charged in connection with a Blackbird Leys murder told police they didn't see anybody in the garden on the night of the killing, a court heard.

As the trial into the murder of Christopher Lemonius continued at Oxford Crown Court today jurors heard transcripts of police interviews given by two accused of perverting the course of justice but not murder - Yamina and Allal Lamzini.

The court heard that both had been home on the night of the killing at Jourdain Road on June 1 last year.

In the statement read to the court Yamina Lamzini told police that she had been in the front living room of their home together with her husband Allal Lamzini shortly before 11pm that night.

She said: "Then I heard some noises coming from the back and it sounded like loud voices and some shouting but I could not make out any words said or how many voices there were.

"I didn't know where they were coming from or if they were from the alleyway, I did get up and look out from the living room in the kitchen to see if I could see anyone but it was dark in the garden so I could not see anything."

The court heard that neither investigated the back garden area, where prosecutors say Mr Lemonius was beaten to death, and went on to tell police in a later statement once they had been charged that they had not 'cleaned up' the killing or moved objects.

Six Oxford men all deny murder: Yasine Lamzini, Otman Lamzini, Rashaun Stoute, Yousef Koudoua, Connor Woodward and Carlos Spencer.

Allal Lamzini, Yamina Lamzini, Saffon Fakir, and a 17-year-old boy from Oxford, all deny charges of perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.