LOS ANGELES Another former girlfriend of Phil Spector, the 1960s music producer, gave evidence at his murder trial in Los Angeles yesterday, telling the jury that he tried to rape her at gunpoint.

Dianne Ogden told the court: “He said he was going to blow my brains out.” Her evidence followed similar testimony from Dorothy Melvin, another of Mr Spector’s former lovers. She also complained of being threatened by the defendant at gunpoint. The jury were played a series of emotional voicemails from Mr Spector to Ms Melvin in which the pop legend in turn apologised for his “inexcusable behaviour”, threatened to sue, and concluded darkly: “Be careful what you say to me, because nothing you say to me is worth your life.”

Mr Spector, 67, is on trial for allegedly shooting Lana Clarkson, a B-movie actress turned cocktail waitress, after putting the barrel of the gun inside her mouth.

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