KATE MOSS ‘ON KILLER’S HIT LIST’

MODEL Kate Moss was listed as a potential target for extortion by a man accused of murdering a respected historian, a court has heard.

Michael Danaher, 50, compiled a list of high profile targets for theft, robbery and ransom demands, Oxford Crown Court heard.

Danaher is on trial for the murder of Adrian Greenwood on April 6.

The body of the Oxford University- educated academic was found with stab wounds by his cleaner in the hall of his home in Oxford, the following day.

The 42-year-old’s name was found on a list on the defendant’s laptop and mobile phone. Also listed, under the heading “Enterprises”, were “people with means” from whom he was planning to get money, the prosecutor Oliver Saxby QC said.

This list was “efficient, and considered and really quite brutal”, reading like “an everyday list of people to see, things to do”, he told the court.

Danaher planned to get this money by either stealing, robbing the targets’ homes or by demanding a ransom by kidnapping an occupant, Mr Saxby said.

Mr Greenwood, a buyer and seller of rare and valuable books, is believed to have been targeted because he owned a £50,000 first edition of The Wind In The Willows, published in 1908, the court heard.

The classic by Kenneth Grahame was worth a “mouthwatering sum” because it came with an original dust cover.

Danaher, who is of Peterborough, Cambs, denies murder.

Showing jurors the list, the prosecutor said there was a “callousness” about the list, adding that a stun gun was found at Danaher’s flat when he was arrested on April 10 after police tracked Mr Greenwood’s phone to the location.

A post-mortem exam showed Mr Greenwood died from multiple stab wounds to the chest and neck and had defensive wounds to the hands, the court heard.

He was stabbed in the back, stamped on and left for dead, the jury was told.

Hours later, Danaher accessed his list, presumably to remove Mr Greenwood’s name, the court heard.

Mr Saxby said former politician and novelist Lord Archer and the supermodel Moss were among a string of names on a list from whom he intended to get money.

The trial continues.