Keeley Bunker murder trial: Man accused of raping and killing friend 'a bit sad' after arrest

A man arrested on suspicion of murdering a female friend after a night out said he was "a bit sad" as he was taken into custody, a court has heard.

Wesley Streete is accused of raping and murdering 20-year-old Keeley Bunker whose body was found lying face-down in a brook concealed under branches in a Staffordshire park.

She had celebrated her birthday just days earlier and was due to attend a job interview later that day - but never arrived, jurors at Stafford Crown Court were told.

Prosecutors allege Ms Bunker, who was just 4ft 11in and weighed six-and-a-half stone, was murdered by Streete in Tamworth on 19 September last year before he tried to hide her body.

She was discovered by her uncle during a search hours after she had been reported missing.

On Wednesday, jurors were shown body-camera footage recorded by police of the moment Streete was arrested.

As he was booked into custody, at about 11.15pm that night, Streete was asked how he was feeling by the sergeant behind the desk.

He replied: "A bit sad.

"I wouldn't even say a bit sad, just say sad."

Streete had joined Ms Bunker and her best friend Monique Riggon in Birmingham for a night out after the two female friends had been to a rap concert.

After getting a taxi back to Tamworth, the two walked to Ms Riggon's home in the early hours of 19 September.

Streete was "trusted" to walk his friend safely back to her house, prosecutors said, with Ms Bunker telling Ms Riggon: "I've got Wes... Wes will walk me back, it'll be fine."

Prosecutors allege that Streete, 20, of no fixed address, instead killed Ms Bunker, then repeatedly lied to her family and police, claiming she was still alive when they parted ways.

As searches for Ms Bunker began later that day, Streete - as the last person to see her alive - was taken on a ride-along in the back of a marked police car in a bid to retrace the pair's steps back through town.

PC Samuel Small was in the car and took Streete back to the last place he claimed to have seen Ms Bunker.

Jacob Hallam QC, prosecuting, told jurors on Wednesday that Streete pointed along Masefield Drive, indicating the direction Ms Bunker was walking in.

Streete told officers: "I'm guessing she went home, I thought she was going home, this way."

At about 9.15pm, PC Small was told by colleagues Ms Bunker's body had been found in the nearby park, and was given orders to take Streete's mobile phone, which he did.

The exchanges were recorded on the officer's body-worn video camera.

Streete kept asking officers why they had taken his phone.

At one point he said: "You said when I was at the house all I need to is to speak to the officer and (we'll) go and look for Keeley.

"And then you take my phone."

Then at 10.17pm, footage showed Streete as he was arrested on suspicion of murder.

As he was being driven to the custody block at Cannock, he was asked by PC Small if he had any questions, to which he replied: "Not really."

Mr Hallam told jurors Streete also said he was hungry while en-route and "asked if there was food to eat when he got there".

Prosecutors have told the jury Streete changed his account at least four times between his arrest and the trial.

In a statement provided by Streete just days before his trial, jurors heard he had since claimed Ms Bunker and he had consensual sex, during which he held her neck and "accidentally killed her".

Streete is also accused of two further counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and a charge of sexual activity with a child, against three other victims, all said to have happened in previous years.

He denies all the charges and the trial continues.