PAUL Grabham set up an account with an internet site for casual sex just hours after he allegedly murdered his wife at their Swansea home, his trial has been told.

He is accused of killing 24-year-old Kirsty Grabham at their flat in Rosehill Terrace, Mount Pleasant, in the early hours of March 28.

Then, just before 9.30am that day, he contacted a sex site he had used several times in the past and announced that he was "looking for fun".

Among prosecution witnesses on day 10 of the case at Swansea Crown Court was company director Andrew Reid.

Mr Reid told the jury that his company, Winchester Consultancy, ran a number of websites, one of which was designed to put people looking for casual sex in touch with one another.

This site contained sexually explicit images, he said, and users could view profiles and exchange messages about sexual interests and the kind of people they would like to meet.

Mr Reid confirmed that, following Mrs Grabham's death, police asked him to examine company records. These showed that, from August, 2008, Paul Grabham used an alias to set up 10 accounts with the site, the court heard.

The last time any of these 10 accounts was accessed was on March 11 last year.

But the records also showed that Grabham went on to create a new account with the site by entering his age and email address at 9.23am on March 28. He also uploaded a picture of himself onto the site.

At 9.29am that day, he sent a message to someone, saying: "Hi, Hon! How are you? I'm 25 and looking for fun."

At 9.35am a second message said: "I could come to Cardiff, Babe."

Then, at 1.20pm that day, he said in another message to someone: "Hi, Hon! How are you today?"

During Mr Reid's evidence, Christopher Clee QC, defending, emphasised that there was no dispute that Grabham had created the 11 accounts on the sex site.

Grabham, aged 26, denies murdering his wife and dumping her body in a suitcase on an embankment near the M4, where it was found on April 6.

The couple worked in the sex industry as prostitutes and had got married in 2008, a few weeks after meeting at a Bridgend brothel.

Among other witnesses yesterday was Mark Jones, an intelligence analyst specialising in telephone data.

He was asked about an attempted 999 call that was made from the landline at the Grabhams' flat at 4.01am on March 28.

Mr Jones said this meant someone had pressed nine three times, but the phone had been put down before the call could go via a British Telecom operator.

He also confirmed that Grabham rang his wife's mobile in the days after her disappearance and left voice and text messages on it.

The case was due to continue today.

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