A mother-of-three accused of luring her lover to his death told a jury she would never have harmed him.

Tracey Cameron said she still loved Leonard Fulbirg at the time he vanished overnight on August 11, 1996.

Cameron and Graham Haylett, the man she was two-timing Mr Fulbirg with, deny murdering him between August 10, 1996 and March 3 the following year.

Yesterday Cameron told Leeds Crown Court of her last meeting with Mr Fulbirg in Keighley three days before he disappeared.

She said they kissed and cuddled in her car after visiting pubs. "I didn't want to stop seeing him," she said.

She said social services had insisted she move to a refuge because Mr Fulbirg was a danger to her children. She said she was in phone contact with him and they met after he was released from prison on remand on August 1.

She then dropped him off near his brother's home in Buttershaw and that was the last time she ever saw him.

She had arranged to meet him again outside McDonalds, in Rooley Lane, Bradford, at 7.30pm on the Sunday but did not go as Haylett and her elder daughter asked her not to.

Asked by her barrister, Guy Kearl QC, if she would have seen Mr Fulbirg again, Cameron replied: "That wouldn't have been the end of the relationship."

She said she spent the Sunday evening with her children at the refuge in Halifax.

She denied meeting Mr Fulbirg, luring him into a car, or taking him to a house and handcuffing him on a bed: "I wouldn't do anything to Len. I still loved Len."

Cameron, 40, of Dunsford Avenue, Bierley, earlier said Mr Fulbirg was "over the moon" when she told him she was pregnant in March 1994.

"I thought I'd got this really sweet, caring, loving man looking after me. Everything seemed really good," she said.

But social workers became concerned Mr Fulbirg was seeing her children because they thought he posed a risk .

Cameron said she began a relationship with Haylett, 40, a cleaner living in Lansdale Court, Bradford, when Mr Fulbirg was in jail on remand.

She said she still loved Len and could not end her relationship with him.

"I just wanted, believed, I could keep things separate. I still wanted to see Len but I know I was in a relationship with Graham," she said.

The dismembered remains of Mr Fulbirg, 49, were found on Oxenhope Moor.

The trial continues.