THE jury in the trial of John Cooper, the farm labourer charged with murdering a Witney couple, are set to begin considering their verdicts today.

Judge Mr Justice John Griffith Williams is expected to finish summing up the evidence at Swansea Crown Court by noon.

Cooper, 66, of Letterston, in West Wales, denies killing Peter and Gwenda Dixon, of Moorland Road, on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path in June 1989.

Cooper also denies two other murders and charges of rape, indecent assault and attempted robbery.