The man convicted of killing Christchurch woman Angela Blackmoore has given evidence against two others standing trial for her murder.
Jeremy Powell told the court he was offered $10,000 to kill the 21-year-old in 1995.
David Hawken and Rebecca Wright-Meldrum heard evidence on Wednesday from the man who carried out the murder they too stand accused of.
Powell exercised his right not to be filmed on Wednesday but media can report his account of what happened 28 years ago.
"David got me and Rebecca to visit him and he suggested that we kill her, Angela, for $10,000," Powell said.
In 2019, new information from the public led the police to Powell - who later confessed to brutally murdering Blackmoore 28 years ago with a bat and knife.
"It was more money than I could ever imagine back then," Powell said. "[It] seemed like a huge amount."
The Crown alleges Wright-Meldrum used her friendship with Blackmoore to help him get into her home on the night of August 17, 1995.
Powell claims he didn't want to carry out the killing.
"I think we sat around for a while talking, Becs kept giving me the signal to do it," he said. "Obviously I wasn't doing it fast enough".
Powell told the court he "chickened" out of an earlier attempt and Hawken allegedly threatened him if he didn't go through with it.
"I told him, 'I couldn't do it,'" Powell said. "He said that if I didn't, I'd wake up with Becs dead next to me and then he'd kill my family."
Under cross examination, Hawken's defence counsel Anne Stevens KC argued Powell barely knew Hawken.
"You're saying that this man contracted you, to kill a woman, that you barely knew?" she asked Powell. "Yes," he responded.
Stevens KC suggested Hawken never ordered the "hit" and "you have made that up to minimise your involvement to blame somebody else".
Powell will give more evidence on Thursday.
