A DRUG user allegedly admitted stabbing two French students, a court has heard.

Nigel Farmer, aged 33, of no fixed address, is accused of murdering Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez at a flat in Sterling Gardens, New Cross, on June 29 last year.

Also accused of the murders, in which the 23-year-olds were stabbed 244 times, is Dano Sonnex, aged 23, of Etta Street, Deptford.

Mother-of-three Fay Culyer, aged 26, and heavily pregnant with Sonnex's brother Bernie's baby, sobbed as she gave evidence at the Old Bailey today (April 29).

Bernie Sonnex, himself currently in prison, lived with Miss Culyer at her flat in Streatham at the time of the murders.

Miss Culyer told the jury how she and Bernie Sonnex were woken up at 6.33am on June 29 by a call from Farmer.

She said: "He (Farmer) was sounding very irate.

"There was a lot of shouting in the background."

She said Bernie Sonnex put the phone down on Farmer, who the prosecution claims was in the students' flat at the time of the call.

Miss Culyer said: "He just thought Nigel was having a laugh and being an idiot because he normally was."

On the afternoon of June 29 Miss Culyer and Bernie Sonnex went round to see the Sonnex family, with whom Farmer was staying, at Etta Street, Deptford.

She said of Farmer: "He looked like he'd seen a ghost and he just looked awful.

"Bernie asked 'what was all that last night?' and Nigel said 'I've done something really wrong - I can't talk about it right now'."

Miss Culyer said Farmer then came to see her at her flat later that night.

Farmer admits torching the students' flat at around 10pm on June 29, claiming he did it because he was scared of Dano Sonnex.

Miss Culyer told the court Farmer's face and hands were badly burned and he was holding a bag of frozen peas to soothe them.

Farmer brought with him heroin and crack which he shared with Miss Culyer and Bernie Sonnex before telling them what had happened.

Miss Culyer told the court Farmer admitted "that he'd had these two guys in a house and had done those things."

Farmer allegedly told her "that he'd stabbed them and that it wasn't a pleasant sight."

Miss Culyer said Bernie Sonnex replied: "Do you realise what you've done you idiot? Do you realise what you've done?"

She added: "He just sat there looking like he was on another planet."

She said Farmer claimed one of the men had tried to fight back and he had "whacked them over the head with a mobile phone."

In her police statement, Miss Culyer said Farmer claimed he and Sonnex "just started stabbing them in the head."

Miss Culyer said one of the men had been stabbed in the eye and that they died slowly.

She told the court Farmer said "that they wouldn't die - they just wouldn't die."

Miss Culyer said she and Bernie Sonnex would take cocaine, heroin and crack, which she would pay for using benefit money.

She briefly had "a fling" with Farmer before she "gave him the elbow" and started going out with Bernie Sonnex.

She said Farmer used to take heroin, crack and cocaine.

Dano Sonnex, who she described in court as "quiet and reserved" and "very polite", would also sometimes take cocaine, she said.

Farmer and Dano Sonnex deny murder, arson and false imprisonment.

Sonnex admits burglary but Farmer denies the charge.

The trial continues.