Sion Jenkins, 41, is charged with killing 13-year-old Billie-Jo Jenkins on February 15 last year.

Billie-Jo, who had been fostered by Jenkins and his wife Lois for four years, was killed as she painted the patio doors of her foster-family's home in Hastings, East Sussex.

Her foster-father was arrested and charged with her murder a month later.

Jenkins, who has been suspended from his post as deputy headmaster of the William Parker School for boys in Hastings since his arrest, denies the charge.