A woman has told a NSW jury her then-boyfriend told her he stabbed a bookmaker during a Sydney robbery carried out to pay for his barrister.
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Terry John Gordon Hickson said "that he stabbed the bookmaker, that he put the knife in him and twisted it and that he was likely dead", Tania Morsman testified in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Hickson, 60, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Charles Skarratt, 72, who was attacked and robbed in the garage of his Woolwich home in December 1989 after returning from the Dapto greyhound races.
Ms Morsman said she lived in North Wollongong at the time and Hickson would regularly visit her.
He told her he was looking at a bookmaker and was going to rob him "because he needed money to pay for his barrister", she said.
"He would stalk the bookmaker on a Thursday evening and that happened at least a month or two before the robbery and murder," Ms Morsman told the court.
"He would go to the races and follow him home."
Ms Morsman said Hickson left her home after dinner on the night of December 21, 1989 with a bag containing gear he would use in the robbery.
"There was a balaclava, there was a pair of overalls and he had a knife in the bag as well," she said.
He returned after midnight wearing the overalls which he gave her to wash, Ms Morsman said.
"There was a lot of blood coming out of the overalls when I was washing them," she said.
"He said there was a struggle because the man was rather a big man and he struggled with him and put up a fight."
The trial continues before Justice David Davies.
AAP
