A TRUCK driver accused of killing his boss during a four-hour ordeal was "compelled’’ to the confrontation by fears over the impending repossession of his home, a court heard today.

Russell Carter told detectives he was in severe financial difficulty because of money he claimed he was owed by his employer before the incident last October.

The 52-year-old from Rumney, Cardiff, denies murdering Kingsley Monk and the attempted murder of three other Driverline 247 employees at an industrial unit in New Inn, Pontypool.

A jury has previously heard how Carter thought he was owed £3,000 by Mr Monk and resented the father-of-two for calling him a "coward’’ on a phone message after he failed to turn up for work.

David Aubrey QC, prosecuting, described how Carter used cable ties and rope to bind Mr Monk and colleagues Gethin Heal, Nathan Taylor and Robert Lewis.

He added that Mr Monk, who lived with his family in Oakdale, was later struck on the head with a metal bar before being "throttled, probably by his own tie’’.

At Newport Crown Court today, transcripts of numerous police interviews conducted with the defendant were read out to the jury.

In the interviews, Carter claimed he only went to the offices to get his money and not to hurt anyone.