Two women have told how the man accused of abducting and murdering his niece took topless photos of them in his bedroom 15 years ago.

Former St Clere's schoolgirls, Kelly Fuller and Jennifer Cairns took the witness stand at Chelmsford Crown Court in the trial of 44-year-old Stuart Campbell.

Both women said they were approached by Campbell - who denies kidnapping and killing 15-year-old Danielle Jones - as they walked through Stanford House car park in East Tilbury in June 1987.

The jury heard Campbell had approached the two 16-year-old girls and told them he was interested in photography - "modelling, ladies in general", said Ms Fuller, a policeman's daughter who lived at the time in Coronation Avenue, East Tilbury.

The two girls agreed to pose as models at his house the next day, and at Campbell's request would bring an assortment of clothes - including "St Trinians-style school uniforms", make-up and underwear.

Ms Fuller said: "He showed both of us a portfolio of different models while we were in the living room. They were black and white pictures of ladies covered in fur or cloth sheet."

Junior prosecutor Brian Altman asked Ms Fuller how old she thought the models were.

"They looked older than us."

Mr Altman said: "Were the pictures indecent or untoward?"

Ms Fuller said: "No".

Ms Fuller and Jennifer Cairns, formerly Stevens, changed into their St Trinian's-style outfits, complete with ripped stockings, in a spare bedroom which had a sunbed in it.

The jury were shown a number of pictures which depicted the pair posing in their outfits and wrestling with each other.

Ms Fuller also told the court pictures were taken upstairs in Campbell's bedroom.

Ms Cairns, formerly from Tyne in East Tilbury, told the court she had brought along a picture of page-three model Samantha Fox, wishing to be depicted with a sheet wrapped around her as in the glamour-model's pose.

Campbell obliged and Ms Cairns showed the court, by lifting her hands to her chest, how she held the sheet.

Ms Cairns said: "'He kept saying pull it down a bit more, he done it for me. It fell off. He took one photo before I pulled it back up."

Ms Cairns told the court Campbell took more than one topless photo of her friend while upstairs and that the friends were not in the same room together when he was taking the pictures.

Ms Cairns said she returned to Campbell's house a week or so later, saw a number photo processing envelopes sticking out of his letterbox and took them to her friend's home.

Ms Fuller said they destroyed the negatives and photos of themselves in underwear and topless, keeping some of the pictures, which they handed to police investigating the disappearance of Danielle Jones last year.

Stuart Campbell, 44, of Meadow Road, Grays, denies the abduction and murder of Danielle Jones, of Hayle, East Tilbury. The case continues

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Published Tuesday November 5, 2002

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