Pictured: Uncle strolls into Iceland to buy four pizzas 'hours after he killed 16-year-old Louise Smith and burned her body'

The uncle of tragic teenager Louise Smith was seen strolling into Iceland to buy four pizzas - just hours after he allegedly murdered and defiled his niece in a shocking 'sexually motivated' killing.

Shane Mays, 30, can be seen in Iceland less than two hours after he was captured on CCTV returning from the secluded woodland where he is accused of slaying aspiring veterinary nurse Louise, 16.

As Mays went out to buy the food, his wife - Louise's aunt - 'frantically' tried to call the missing teenager and Louise's worried boyfriend went out searching for her.

Louise went missing in Havant, Hampshire, at 12.49pm on May 8, having been 'lured' one and a half miles away to the murder scene at Havant Thicket by Mays, a court heard.

'Typical teenager' Louise - who only started living with Mays and his wife CJ two weeks before - was found with her skull smashed, her body 'terribly' defiled, and was burned in what has been described as a 'cruel and brutal' murder.

Mays denies murder but admits manslaughter, claiming he attacked her with a series of punches after he 'lost his temper' during an argument.

Now, footage filmed at 3.11pm on May 8 shows Mays returning from allegedly murdering Louise.

On foot and wearing a red t-shirt, Mays can be seen walking through Havant.

He stops at his mother's house as he is 'very sweaty and thirsty' then returns home at 3.57pm.

At 4.47pm, as CJ and Louise's boyfriend Bradley Kercher begin to panic over her whereabouts, Mays can be seen strolling to the shops.

Still wearing the red t-shirt, he walks through an empty shopping precinct while others celebrate VE day and heads into Iceland, buys four pizzas, then pops into Tesco before heading home around 5pm.

Prosecutor James Newton-Price QC has said: 'He's at home all those times his wife is phoning Louise to find out where she is, and obviously he didn't want to tell her.

'So what he did, is go out and buy pizzas. He had with him four pizzas - he knew Louise was dead at this time.'

Prosecutor James Newton-Price QC has said: 'He's at home all those times his wife is phoning Louise to find out where she is, and obviously he didn't want to tell her.

'So what he did, is go out and buy pizzas. He had with him four pizzas - he knew Louise was dead at this time.'

Louise Smith, 16, went missing on VE Day in May, sparking a huge two-week search for her

Louise had been living with Shane Mays (right) and his wife, Chazlynn Jayne Mays (left), 29

Mr Newton-Price QC has told the court: 'The burned and decomposed state of Louise's body was such that we cannot say exactly which of her multiple injuries caused her death.

'But it is clear that her killer lured or persuaded her to walk to a remote location where he attacked her.

'We say you can conclude that this was an act of unimaginable cruelty towards a vulnerable 16 year old girl.

'The shattering of the bones and the structure of her face, including the complete detachment of her jawbone, indicates multiple blows to her head.

'The most intimate part of her body was penetrated with breathtaking brutality.

'There is background evidence that Louise was unhappy in the care of Mays and his wife and that she, an adolescent, was drinking heavily in their flat on the night before she disappeared.

'Louise Smith was just 16. She was anxious, needy, mentally fragile and vulnerable to attentions of a predatory man who was apparently flirting with her and living in the same small flat.'

He claims he did not defile or set fire to Louise.

It comes after the court was shown CCTV footage of Louise walking side by side with Mays on the night before her death.

Louise strolled with Mays for him to buy alcohol from a nearby shop just before 8pm on May 7 this year.

But 24 hours later Mays had killed her after punching her to death after claiming he had 'lost his temper'.

The footage of their trip was shown to jurors at Winchester Crown Court, Hampshire, this morning before evidence from some of Louise's friends.

They heard she 'hated' living with Mays and his wife CJ and sent out a desperate 'help' message 24 hours before her death as well as a picture of herself crying.

The last piece of footage then showed the pair together again as they walked to the shops

They both went inside a Premier Store before they briefly split to go to different stores

The day before she was killed she made plans to move in with her mum's friend Samantha Burt, but 'suddenly' changed her mind that evening.

Friend Chloe Edwards-Guest, 19, who received the picture, said: 'Lou and CJ were arguing quite a bit, CJ wanted her boyfriend Brad gone.

'She would not talk to me properly but told me everything got worse.

'She would not open up to me like she usually would but there was arguments with CJ and Shane. They were being really strict on Lou and she was not allowed her phone at all and she was not allowed out unless it was with Shane, that's my understanding.'

Miss Edwards-Guest said her 'lovely' friend had to lie just to get out of the house and was 'unusually quiet' when they met, but was 'rebellious' by smoking cannabis because she 'didn't care' what Mays thought.

She also told the court Louise's aunt, Sammy Jackson, kicked Louise and her boyfriend Bradley out into the cold over an argument about a lighter.

The friend added: 'They literally had nowhere to go, it was quite late and raining and cold. It was not a condition you would kick a 16 year old girl out in.

'She had a little bag on her shoulder and her toiletries, I had to give her a bag of clothes, some spare clothes I had.'

Samantha Burt, a former friend of Louise's mum, often cared for the teenager and let her stay. On May 7, 24 hours before the teen's death, Miss Burt responded to her desperate 'I need your help' message.

Louise was captured on CCTV cameras visiting a nearby Tesco branch on her own

Shane Mays was then seen leaving the shop and walking across pavement towards home

Louise was also spotted in the same spot after they briefly split up for some shopping

Louise Smith and Shane Mays are seen walking back home in the last known video of her

Miss Burt said: 'When I rang her she was crying, she was in a complete fit. She was hysterically crying.

'She said 'I don't want to be there, I want to go' and I said 'get your stuff and come to me, you know where I am'.

'She hated being there, she said 'I can't do nothing there, they are treating me like a child. She was going to get Brad and come to me.'

The court also heard Miss Burt told Louise she would be 'safe' at her house.

Throughout the afternoon Miss Burt messaged Louise, telling her she was preparing spaghetti bolognese for her dinner, but in the evening Louise 'suddenly' said she wasn't going after she spoke to her social worker.

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