The man accused of murdering a Polish mother with cling film in a kebab shop told a court the young woman was planning on leaving the father of her son for him.

The court was previously told how Ahsan "Ali" Hassan carried Zofia Sadowska's "limp and completely floppy" body out of Dennis’s Kebab Shop, in Gayhurst Road, Micklefield, and into a taxi after he had become consumed with jealousy.

Jurors were told Hassan, 28, admitted manslaughter by killing the mother-of-one in what he described as part of a lovers' suicide pact but he denied a charge of murder.

Taking to the stand for the first time yesterday (March 23), speaking through an interpreter, Hassan told Reading Crown Court that the 20-year-old told him “she wasn’t happy” in her relationship and “wanted to separate” her boyfriend but keep her 3-year-old son.

The court was told how the pair would go to clubs, usually Yates' in High Wycombe on a Tuesday, Friday and Saturday night before going back to his house, where he shared a room with his co-accused, Usman Ansar.

A jury heard how the kebab shop worker would pay for everything when they went out and even loaned her his bank card and PIN number to get "whatever she wanted."

Although the pair mainly saw each other in the evenings, he explained that Miss Sadowska would leave her young son in the house by himself so that she could meet up with Hassan.

Hassan told the jury at Reading Crown Court how the pair had to hide their relationship, on his victim's insistence, until a day when the couple would have lived together.

He then explained how he decided that the pair should go on a week's break, as a result of her excessive drinking, something that he found difficult to cope with.

He said: "I didn't have any problem when she is drinking, I didn't mind that but the amount she was drinking she was hurting herself. That is my problem.

"When she has too much to drink people will take advantage of her. Random people tried their luck. The people that didn't know anything about her friends, people would try their luck with her.”

The court also heard that Hassan arrived in the UK to study English in 2011 and is still married.

He told a jury how he had grown up in Lahore, Pakistan, but eventually found himself working in the takeaway.

Hassan told the court how he had spoken Urdu in Lahore, where he had lived with his parents, two sisters and a brother but moved to London in 2011 to study English.

He then moved to High Wycombe to be with his childhood friend and co-accused, who Hassan believes he met during year 10 – although the pair attended different schools.

The court also heard that Hassan is still married to a woman named Victoria - the pair tied the knot on March 17 2014 - although they separated when she became pregnant by another man.

"I met her in London," he said.

"She was living in London. First time I met her outside a club and we had a chat and after that the next time we exchanged numbers."

"She had an affair with another boy." he explained.

The trial continues.