A MAN accused of killing his pregnant partner’s unborn baby told a court he did not assault her.

Asa Davison is alleged to have attacked his victim in order to kill the child while she was 29 weeks pregnant with another man’s baby.

He is accused of child destruction, causing the woman grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.

Prosecutors allege that the 35-year-old deliberately kicked and punched the woman in the stomach and dragged her along the road on the night of May 29, 2020.

Giving evidence during a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court yesterday, Davison, from Gillingham, told jurors that he found his partner with a blooded nose at a property and he went to comfort her. The defendant said that she told him she had fallen down the stairs.

He told the court that he spoke to her on the middle landing of the housing block.

“I believe I went up to comfort her,” said Davison.

Asked by prosecutor Sarah Jones why he did not tell police what his partner had told him about falling down the stairs when they spoke to him on May 31, 2020, and his lack of response to other questions, he said he did not trust them from previous experiences.

The court heard Davison apologised to the complainant when she called him from hospital to say she had lost her child. The defendant said he “apologised for her loss”.

Ms Jones put it to Davison that he pursued his partner after she had left him sat on a bench and when he found her he beat her up. He replied: “No, that’s incorrect.”

The defendant said he had “no jealousy or rage” when he went to look for the complaint. He told the court he was calm at that point.

Asked is his evidence had been “lie, upon lie, upon lie”, Davison said “it is truth, upon truth, upon truth”. Put to him that he was jealous of his partner, the defendant said: “Sometimes I did feel jealous and she did make me feel paranoid.”

Davison, who was wearing grey tracksuit bottoms and a dark fleece jacket in the witness box, told the court: “I did not see the lump on her head, I didn’t see the black eye. All I noticed was the nose bleed.”

As reported, the complainant was taken to hospital where she was found to have significant facial injuries.

An ultrasound detected no fetal heartbeat and confirmed the baby died inside her, which at the 20 week scan was developing normally and without concern, the court heard.

Davison denies child destruction, causing the woman grievous bodily harm and actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.