Two men accused of helping serial killer Joanna Dennehy will not give evidence in their defence, a jury heard yesterday.
Dennehy, 31, has admitted murdering three men and dumping their bodies in ditches.
Her alleged accomplices Gary Stretch, 47, and Leslie Layton, 37, are currently on trial.
Karim Khalil QC, acting for Stretch, told Cambridge Crown Court his client would not take the stand to give evidence.
Layton, who is represented by Christopher Morgan, made the same decision.
Closing the prosecution case, Andrew Jackson read out a telephone conversation Stretch made while in prison.
He called his ex-partner Julie Gibbons, who is the mother of his three children.
In it Ms Gibbons asked why Dennehy "did it."
Stretch responded: "Well she’s just that way, she’s just that way I suppose. You know what I mean, she's off her head."
Ms Gibbons said: "So why didn't you run a mile?
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