A WITNESS in the trial of three men and a woman accused of plotting a series of armed robberies in the West Midlands claimed police had invented parts of her statement.

Lisa Jones was asked about interviews with detectives after a failed raid on Wolverley Post Office, near Kidderminster, when postmaster Richard Watkins stabbed robber Scott Griffiths to death.

She admitted Wayne Davies, one of the accused, had come to her flat in Halesowen on the day of the Wolverley incident, but denied telling police that he was crying when he saw TV coverage.

Davies, aged 26, of Himley Road, Dudley, Michelle Sykes, 21, of Sudderley Gardens, Milking Bank, Gornal, Neal Frost, 33, of George Street, Wordsley, and Patrick Crane, 38, of no fixed address, deny conspiracy to rob.

Miss Jones told the court Davies was "upset and angry" when he came to her flat but he would not say why.

She was questioned at length by prosecution counsel, Richard Latham QC, about a second statement she made two days after the Wolverley raid.

In it, she was alleged to have said Davies was upset and crying and blurted out somebody was dead and it should have been him. She claimed police had made this up.

The court was shown an extract of a TV report on the raid at the Spar store in Kinver when assistant Mandy Burrows, eight months pregnant, was beaten up.

Miss Jones denied she told police that Davies, when watching the programme, commented: "She's a lying bitch. She's only saying that so she can get compensation. I only slapped her."

This had also been made up by police, she said.

Asked why she had signed the statement as a true record, she maintained she had not read it and wanted to get home to her family after eight hours at Brierley Hill police station.

At the end of her evidence, Mr Latham asked if she was frightened. She replied: "No."

The trial continues.