A JURY in a murder and attempted murder trial has heard recordings of the defendant calling 999 to confess 24 hours after the attacks.

David Kilcullen is accused of murdering 59-year-old Gerry Edwards and attempting to murder Chris Bevan, 57, at their apartment in Page Heath Villas, Bickley, on the evening of March 3.

The 46-year-old, of The Avenue, Bickley, denies the charges, claiming he stabbed the couple in self-defence.

At the Old Bailey this morning a jury listened to five calls Kilcullen made to the emergency services from his home on the evening of March 4.

In the first call he said: “You’re investigating a murder in south east London. It was me.”

After giving his name and address, including his postcode, to the 999 operator and admitting being drunk, he added: “It’s flashed all over the news.

“It was not a homophonic attack. It was done for a reason.”

Minutes later Kilcullen called 999 again to ask why officers had not arrived at his home to arrest him yet.

Shortly afterwards he made a third call to the emergency services and used abusive language.

When the operator threatened to end the conversation, Kilcullen said: “Are you going to cut me off? Are you going to cut off a murderer?”

He added: “There was a murder and a possible murder. I did it. Are you coming to get me or what?”

Minutes later he made a fourth 999 call to again confess to the attacks, and the operator asked him what he remembered about the incident.

Kilcullen replied: “I remember blood. I just remember blood.”

When asked why he had attacked Mr Edwards and Mr Bevan, Kilcullen said: “All I know is I got in a dilemma with two faggots who tried to have sex with me.”

He then went on to say he had fallen asleep in an armchair at the home of Mr Edwards and Mr Bevan and awoken to find them performing sex acts on him.

Kilcullen told the 999 operator: “I went berserk. I went in the kitchen and grabbed a knife and I went berserk.”

However, in another phone call Kilcullen made to the emergency services minutes later, he said he had carried out the attacks for money.

After Kilcullen had said he did not know who the men were he had stabbed, the operator asked him why he had done it.

Kilcullen replied: “Because I was skint.”

He added: “I stabbed him so many times.”

Later that evening police arrived at Kilcullen’s flat and arrested him.

Detective Sergeant Lee Brandon told the court that while Kilcullen was in custody at Lewisham police station he said: “I know what I’m up for. I know my fate.”

He said Kilcullen added: “You can come round mine for a drink but it will be after 50 years.”

Paul Purnell, defending Kilcullen, brought to the jury’s attention that he was still drunk while making the remarks.

Earlier the jury had seen photographs of the horrific injuries Mr Bevan sustained, which included multiple knife wounds to the scalp, face and chest.

One wound left his left ear hanging from the side of his head by a thread of skin.

Mr Edwards was stabbed four times and died as a result of one of the wounds, which went through his sternum and into his heart. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene of the attack.

Mr Bevan spent months in hospital in a critical condition and has still not made a full recovery.

The trial continues.