THE NINE INCH KNIFE THAT DANCER PENNY MARTIN, 19,

THE NINE INCH KNIFE THAT DANCER PENNY MARTIN, 19, CLAIMS

WAS RUN UP HER NAKED BODY WAS FOUND BY HER MANAGER’S BED, AN OLD

BAILEY JURY HEARD.

DETECTIVES TRICKED THEIR WAY INTO 52 YEAR OLD JEFFREY

WELL’S FLAT BY PRETENDING THEY HAD A LETTER FROM MISS MARTIN.

BUT WELLS TOLD POLICE HE USED THE KNIFE TO ‘CUT HIS TOE

NAILS.

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THEY WERE INVESTIGATING MISS MARTIN’S ALLEGATION THAT WELLS

PUT HER THROUGH A SIX HOUR SEX ORDEAL, THE COURT HEARD.

DETECTIVE CONSTABLE IAN HARRISON, WHO FOUND THE BLACK

HANDLED KNIFE ON A CHEST OF DRAWERS BESIDE WELLS’S BED, SAID: ‘WELLS

WAS SWEARING AND BEING ABUSIVE.

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HE WAS SAID TO BE ONLY WEARING A TOWEL WHEN OFFICERS

FORCED THEIR WAY PAST THE PARTIALLY OPEN FRONT DOOR.

AUSTRALIAN MISS MARTIN, WHO DANCED IN WELLS’ GROUP

‘FREE EXPRESSION’, HAD EARLIER TOLD THE JURY THAT HE HAD RUN THE

TIP OF KNIFE UP HER BODY AND FLICKED IT OFF THE END OF HER CHIN.

SHE ALSO CLAIMED SHE WAS FORCED TO WATCH ‘DYNASTY’ TOPLESS

AND INDECENTLY ASSAULTED BY WELLS AFTER BEING FORCED TO STRIP NAKED.

DOCTOR ANTHONY QUASTREL, A POLICE SURGEON, SAID THAT WHEN HE

EXAMINED MISS MARTIN FORTY EIGHT HOURS AFTER THE ALLEGED ASSAULT SHE

WAS SUFFERING FROM ‘MINOR STIFFNESS’ OF THE NECK.

HE REJECTED DEFENCE CLAIMS THAT THE LACK OF SERIOUS INJURY

TO HER WAS INCONSISTENT WITH HER VERSION OF EVENTS THAT NIGHT.

WELLS OF GLOUCESTER PLACE, MARYLEBONE, DENIES INDECENT

ASSAULT AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT ON NOVEMBER 8 LAST.

ENDS/MFL

CENTRALA NEWS SERVICE, 33 GOODGE ST.

LONDON, W.

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OLD BAILEY

SEPT 12

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