A financial adviser accused of battering his millionaire client to death told police he was 'accosted' by an unknown man at the victim's apartment.
David Jeffs, 36, claimed the assailant, who had blood on his wrists, pushed him away from Roberto Troyan's Mayfair flat and told him to go away.
Jeffs allegedly bought two Lotus sports cars, jetted across the globe and blew nearly £20,000 on a single night at a strip club using Mr Troyan's money.
When his dishonesty was about to be uncovered, Jeffs beat his 63-year-old victim to death inside his home in Mount Street, Mayfair in March, jurors heard.
Continuing his opening on day two of the trial prosecutor Edward Brown QC said Jeffs gave police two accounts after his arrest.
When Jeffs was first interviewed by police just days after the murder he denied entering Mr Troyan's home on March 8.
He claimed he had knocked on the front door of Mr Troyan's house but got no answer.
When scientists found Mr Troyan's blood on Jeffs' briefcase, he changed tack, claiming an unknown man 'accosted' him at the victim's front door and told him to go away.
Mr Brown explained that the odds of the blood - located inside the case in a back compartment - belonging to someone other than Mr Troyan was 'one a a billion'.
Detailing Jeffs' police interviews after he was charged with murder in June the prosecutor said:
'He said this time that, when he had been outside the door to Mr Troyan's flat on 8 March, knocking and waiting to see Mr Troyan, he was accosted by man who came out from Mr Troyan's flat.
'The man pushed him away from the flat and up against the lift doors; the man told the defendant that this was none of his business and to go away.
'The man had water running from his hands and face 'as if he'd just splashed them with water' and apparent blood around his wrists.
'The man went back into Mr Troyan's flat and closed the door behind him.
'The defendant said he then gathered up his belongings, which had been scattered from his briefcase on the floor.
'Whilst in the lift he said he removed a splash mark from his face, which was a combination of water and a small amount of blood and a mark on the lower part of his left trouser leg.
'He said he thought he put his scarf then straight into his bag or continued to wear it and then put it into his bag slightly later on.
'He claimed that he had been unaware of whether or not Mr Troyan had been in the flat at all at that stage.'
Mr Brown added: 'This was plainly a wholly false account.
'It was invented to cater for the blood that had in truth come from his own contact with Mr Troyan and Mr Troyan's wet blood during the attack.'
When Jeffs was first contacted by police on the day of the killing he told them about Mr Troyan's financial problems and struggle with alcohol and drugs.
Jeffs also claimed he was near his home in Nottingham when he was in fact close to where the M25 meets the M40.
He had started working for Mr Troyan in 2005 after the death of his partner Anthony Feldman, an interior designer whose clients included Princess Michael of Kent and former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken.
Croydon Crown Court has heard how Jeffs had defrauded his 'frail and vulnerable' client of around £343,000 to fund a lavish lifestyle.
Jeffs spent the cash on Lotus sports cars costing up to £52,000 as well as expensive holidays to Mauritius, Ibiza and the USA.
He also frequented expensive hotels and restaurants and spent £19,500 in one night at Spearmint Rhinos nightclub.
The prosecution claim Jeffs' spending doubled and quadrupled in the years following his employment as 'financial concierge' to Mr Troyan.
CCTV evidence places Jeffs at Mr Troyan's flat during the period of time in which police say the murder must have occurred.
He also bought black bin-bags, wet wipes and a new set of clothes like the ones he was wearing in Mayfair.
Jeffs had spent 45 minutes at a service station in Surrey where he is alleged to have changed into his brand new clothes, disposing of his blood stained garments.
Mr Brown told jurors: 'You will recognise what he omitted to tell the police.
'He said that the clothing he had been wearing had included, specifically, chino style trousers, a grey V neck jumper, a dark blue blazer and that he had been carrying a black leather satchel.
'He also showed police that clothing safe in the knowledge that it would not have any blood on it.'
Jeffs, formerly of Larch Close, Arnold, Nottingham, denies murder and fraud by abuse of position.
The trial continues.
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