The jury in the trial of murdered doctor Victoria Anyetei has retired to consider its verdict.

David Quartey, who lived in the 54-year-old victim's Dartford home, has denied carrying out the frenzied knife attack while under pressure from failing vital college examinations.

The consultant paediatrician was stabbed 57 times as she sat in her car outside her home in Teynham Road on August 14 last year.

The prosecution told the jury of eight men and four women at Maidstone Crown Court that Quartey, 22, son of a High Court judge in Ghana, had about two hours to get rid of vital evidence before "discovering" the body.

Ghana-born Dr Anyetei acted as Quartey's guardian. He lived in the house with her son Andrew Thompson, a law student at Kent University, Canterbury.

Quartey, now of Humber Road, Dartford, denied murder, claiming he loved Dr Anyetei and respected her "like a mum".