A WOMAN who was killed in her own home could have met the killer on Facebook, the Old Bailey has heard.

Adam Mann, aged 29, of Springfield Road, Welling, denies killing Lisa Beverley at her home in Coupland Place, Plumstead, last September.

He claims his ex-wife was already dead when he went to her home to commit a burglary so that she could claim the insurance money.

Defence barrister Sarah Forshaw told the court that it was possible Miss Beverley met her attacker on Facebook.

She said: "She, in her innocence, provided her own details, her phone number, her address.

"The problem with Facebook is that you just don't know very much about who you are talking to if you have no mutual friends and no family connections.

"What we do know is that Lisa Beverley was effectively, innocently, dangerously, in contact with strangers."

In July, Miss Beverley wrote on her Facebook page: "Someone needs to stop the stupid phonecalls and texts."

Miss Forshaw said: "Somebody was making Lisa Beverley uneasy. She told a friend that she wanted to get a dog for her protection."

She said of her client: "He is not a clever man, not an articulate man. He said 'I'm a liar not a killer'.

"Let's add to liar, greedy, selfish, thinking about himself first and foremost, just about every occasion you may think."

She added: "The case against him, you may think, looks for all the world like it's open and shut. Can I just ask you to stop for a moment. What if, for the first time, Adam Mann is telling the truth?

"What an irony it would be if for the first time Adam Mann was telling the truth about not killing Lisa Beverley and no one believes him."

She went on to say numerous other men could have been her killer.

The judge is due to sum up tomorrow.

Mann’s girlfriend Elizabeth Kilgallon, aged 27, of Springfield Road, Welling, denies perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.