The judge presiding over the trial of Joanna Yeates' killer is to begin his summing up.
Mr Justice Field will address jurors before they retire to consider their verdict.
Vincent Tabak, 33, denies Miss Yeates's murder but has admitted her manslaughter.
During the trial at Bristol Crown Court the Dutch engineer described his actions as "horrendous" as he showed jurors with his own hand how he strangled his next-door neighbour.
Tabak said he had been attracted to 25-year-old Miss Yeates and "made a pass at her" when she invited him in to her flat in Clifton, Bristol.
The prosecution maintain Tabak's assault was sexually motivated - an accusation rejected by the defence. Jurors have been told Miss Yeates suffered 43 separate injuries when she was attacked.
During his closing speech on Tuesday, prosecutor Nigel Lickley QC said that instead of walking away Tabak held Miss Yeates by the throat until she fell limp in his hands.
After Mr Lickley had finished, William Clegg QC, for Tabak, said jurors should reject the prosecution assertion that Miss Yeates's death was "planned, premeditated and sexually motivated" as the evidence did not support it.
Landscape architect Miss Yeates was last alive on the evening of December 17 last year. She was reported missing two days later when her boyfriend Greg Reardon returned to their ground floor flat in Canynge Road, Clifton, Bristol, after a weekend away.
Police launched a massive hunt for the university graduate but her body was found by dog walkers on Christmas morning in a country lane in Failand, North Somerset - just three miles from her home. The net closed in on Tabak and he was arrested on January 20 when police matched his DNA to samples found on Miss Yeates's body and clothing.