By The Canadian Press

YELLOWKNIFE - A woman who owned a house in Edmonton used by an alleged Mountie killer as a hideout says he showed up battered and bruised.

Sharon Perrah told Emrah Bulatci's first-degree murder trial that he told her he had shot an RCMP officer in Hay River, N.W.T.

She says he told her he tied his bloody clothes to a rock, threw them into a river and buried the gun he used in the river bank.

Perrah told the jury she didn't want Bulatci to stay at her house, but she let him because she was afraid of him.

Bulatci, 25, is accused in the slaying of Const. Christopher Worden on Oct. 6, 2007.

Bulatci, who is from St. Albert, Alta., was picked up at an Edmonton home and arrested six days later.