A woman who accused her husband of attempting to kill a teenager was left money in gangster Ronnie Kray's will, the Old Bailey heard today.

Ann Haywood said she had known the Krays from the age of 18 and visited Ronnie in Broadmoor.

In 1995 she was left money in his will but refused to take it.

Mrs Haywood, 37, who has four children from her seven-year marriage, denied she had been left £10,000.

She said: "It was about £2,000, I think."

She said she had gone to see Ronnie in the special hospital because, 'I was trying to be a freelance journalist at the time and I went to interview him'."

She denied suggestions by John Perry QC, defending her husband Ian, that she had "friends in the underworld" and had set Mr Haywood up.

But she said she had met another Broadmoor patient, Charlie Smith, and they became engaged for six years.

Ian Haywood, 37, of Willow Way, Hurstpierpoint, denies attempting to kill a 17-year-old girl, attempting to rape her, and other offences, at the Ditchling Common beauty spot, near Burgess Hill, in January, last year.

The prosecution alleges Haywood threatened the girl and her boyfriend with a gun before striking him, locking him in the boot of a car and stabbing her 35 times.

He was arrested after his wife contacted police to allege he was the attacker, and say she had seen him with bloody clothing and an imitation firearm.

Mrs Haywood told the court she had been frightened when Haywood allegedly confessed what he had done.

In cross-examination she said she had been treated for split personality disorder until 1996.

Two of her "personas" were called Stevie and Harvey, both described as ruthless.

But Mrs Haywood added: "I am talking about imagination here."

She said she no longer had different personality disorders.

The trial continues.