Crack cocaine addict Nicky Robinson told police he must have been at Kylee Dibble's flat the morning she was murdered.

At first Robinson, 24, told detectives he'd visited Kylee's home at Corbett House, Barton Hill, 24 hours before her charred remains were found there.

When presented with a list of several men who visited Kylee on her last weekend, Robinson put himself at the flat on the Monday morning, but was adamant he left Kylee alive and well.

Robinson, who was living with his cousin at the flats at the time, denies murdering 18-year-old Kylee in February 2005.

It is claimed Robinson, who was addicted to crack cocaine at the time, battered the teenager over the head, possibly in a row over getting money for drugs, before setting fire to her body to cover his tracks.

In interview Robinson told police he met Kylee six to eight weeks before her murder and regularly visited her flat to chat, smoke cannabis, watch films and have sex. He claimed that the last time he saw her was when they had sex in the early hours of Sunday, February 27, 2005.

When police told him their inquiries had placed other men at Kylee's flat at that time, he told them that, though he was not sure he was there on the Monday morning, it must have been the case.

Robinson conceded that he was putting himself at the flat on the Monday but told police: "I didn't kill her, it wasn't me, mate, seriously.

"We had sex, there was no arguments, no aggression.

"I took crack before I went there – I smoke crack, that's what I do.

"I was the last person to see her alive but I did not murder Kylee Dibble. I'm not a killer."

Robinson told police that claims by fellow crack user Jeffrey Ford that he had seen Robinson behaving oddly on that Monday morning were "preposterous".

He said that it was Ford who came at him when the pair later clashed while remanded in custody at Horfield Prison and the only reason he had hit Ford with a pool ball in a sock was to protect himself.

The case continues, with Robinson due to give evidence in his defence at Bristol Crown Court today (Nov 4).