A woman asked a solicitor for advice on getting Bernard Evans evicted from his home in Ammanford just hours before she allegedly stabbed him to death, a jury has heard this afternoon.

Maxine Williams, aged 22, told police she was angry when she was told Mr Evans was entitled to five days' notice.

During questioning following her arrest she at first admitted but later denied that on the way home from the solicitor's office on Monday, January 21, she had said, "If he's not out by Friday I will carve him up."

The prosecution has accused Ms Williams, of Pembrey, of first throwing knives at Mr Evans, aged 42, and then stabbing him in the arm at the home in Pantyffynnon Road, Ammanford, he shared with her mother Julie During a series of police interviews Ms Williams said Mr Evans had been frequently violent towards her mother and that on at least two occasions he had also made sexual advances towards her.

Ms Williams said he once entered the bathroom while she was there and on another occasion had tried to touch her breasts.

Ms Williams said she had urged her mother to get Mr Evans out of the house.

"My mother wanted him to leave. She told him to go but he said it was as much his house as her's. But it was her's outright.

"He was hitting her around so much. He just loved it. He does it even when he had not been drinking," she said.

"She was petrified of him. She was scared she might get him out and then he would come back in the early hours.

"I told her to go to the police station but she said she was scared of him.

I was getting angry because she wouldn't listen to me.

"None of this would have happened if she had listened to me."

But she also told officers that when he was sober Mr Evans could be "brilliant."

She agreed that on the evening of January 21 she had told a neighbour: "If he hits my mother again I will kill him."

But she explained she meant she would give him "a couple of slaps" and that she often said words like "kill him" without meaning them.

Ms Williams denies murder and the case continues.