The ex-girlfriend of an alleged serial killer has told the states Supreme Court that he said he would ‘bury her’ if she ‘opened her mouth’ after witnesses one of the alleged murders. Steven Leslie Hainsworth is currently acing trial for murdering three people over a 13 year span.
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00:00This is the Mount Gambier home where police allege Stephen Leslie Hainsworth
00:04bashed to death Stephen Newton in 2011. The court heard the pensioner's body was
00:09found several weeks after the alleged killing, with rubbish and cannabis strewn
00:13over his body. His home had been ransacked. Mr Hainsworth is also accused
00:19of murdering Phyllis Harrison in 1998 and Beverly Hanley in 2010 in Adelaide.
00:25The court previously heard he was allegedly motivated by stealing and
00:29selling off valuables in each alleged victim's home. The accused's ex-girlfriend
00:33giving evidence on Friday saying she attended Mr Newton's home with the
00:38accused saying we knocked on the door, Steve Hainsworth put his foot in the
00:42door, Mr Newton grabbed my hair, there was a scuffle. She said she saw Mr
00:47Hainsworth bash the alleged victim's head and later observed he wasn't
00:51breathing. Telling the court, the accused said he needed to return to Mr Newton's
00:56home to clean up the evidence. He told me not to open my mouth or we'd go to the
01:01pines, she told the court. When asked if she feared the accused, Ms Evans said yes
01:06because he had already murdered someone, he could do it again. Under cross
01:10examination, Mr Hainsworth's defense lawyer put to the witness that the
01:15accused's threats to bury her in the pines was actually related to Stephen
01:19cheating on him and that she'd seen Mr Hainsworth's friend murder Mr Newton.
01:24Ms Evans disagreed with both submissions. The trial continues.