MORGAN Huxley’s alleged killer revealed a chilling murder fantasy to his psychiatrist before the Neutral Bay businessman’s death, saying “it would probably be a total random, with a knife,” the Supreme Court heard yesterday.

Daniel Jack Kelsall, who is accused of stalking and ­stabbing Mr Huxley 28 times, confided his thoughts in 2012, 15 months before the popular 31-year-old was killed.

“I could hide a body,” Kelsall, now 22, told his doctor. The psychiatrist’s evidence was revealed as part of the opening address to the ­Supreme Court as Kelsall began standing trial for Mr Huxley’s murder in Neutral Bay on September 8, 2013.

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media_camera Daniel Kelsall is led out of a prison truck at the Supreme Court this morning. Picture: John Grainger

He had “intrusive thoughts” — and in Kelsall’s words to psychiatrist Dr Matthew Boulton, “a thrill to kill”.

Crown prosecutor Peter McGrath SC told the jury Kelsall’s revelations to the psychiatrist echoed “exactly what happened to Mr Huxley” in what the Crown alleges was a “senseless and motiveless crime.” Mr Huxley “managed to get to the doorway before collapsing” where flatmate Jean Redmond found him, semi-naked and “covered in blood”.

The jury was told CCTV footage will show Kelsall, who also lived nearby in ­Neutral Bay, breaking into “a very quick walk, almost a jog as though to catch up with Mr Huxley” who was walking home to his Watson St ­apartment after drinking at The Oaks Hotel.

media_camera Morgan Huxley (left) was a regular at The Oaks Hotel. Picture: Facebook

Mr McGrath said Kelsall’s right ring fingerprint was found on Mr Huxley’s door and his DNA profile was located on the businessman’s penis.

He has pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and ­murder, and his barrister Christopher Watson ­yesterday told the jury Kelsall will give evidence at trial to ­explain “damning aspects” of the Crown case.

Of the DNA evidence, Mr Watson said “that is of course an aspect the accused has to address”.

Mr Watson told the jury that no blood was found on the clothes or shoes Mr Kelsall was wearing on the night.

media_camera Morgan Huxley was found stabbed to death at his Neutral Bay flat after spending time at The Oaks Hotel. Picture: Bob Barker

Blood spots from Mr Huxley were detected on a shoulder bag Kelsall can be seen carrying on the CCTV, which Mr Watson suggested could have transferred if his client was “near Mr Huxley when harm first came to him”.

The jury heard that Kelsall told a psychiatrist in 2012 that he had taken a knife from the cooking school where he worked and walked home “but didn’t meet anybody”.

He was arrested four weeks after the murder, ­following the return of ­forensic laboratory reports that confirmed his DNA was at the scene.

media_camera Morgan Huxley. media_camera Daniel Kelsall / Picture: John Grainger

media_camera The front door of the Neutral Bay townhouse where Morgan Huxley was found stabbed to death.

Ms Redmond yesterday told the jury she woke about 1.30am on the morning of Mr Huxley’s death by what she thought was “Morgan ­coming home.”

She said she went back to sleep but was again disturbed by a “screeching sound.”

“It sounded like chalk on a blackboard ... coming from Morgan’s room,” she said, adding she also thought she heard a “snoring noise”.

When the noise continued for five minutes, Ms Redmond told the jury she got up “to check Morgan was OK”.

media_camera Friends and family farewell Morgan Huxley at Macquarie Park Crematorium. Picture: Bradley Hunter

“Morgan was lying on the floor, he was lying on his right side at the door of the bedroom and he had blood all over his face and his body.”

The jury heard Mr Huxley often kept the front door of the apartment unlocked “so people could visit”, but that when Ms Redmond’s boyfriend arrived after her panicked phone call the couple noticed the top lock had been deadbolted, which neither of the flatmates usually locked.

media_camera Jean Redmond, flatmate of Morgan Huxley / Picture: Chris McKeen

Mr McGrath told the jury the evidence would lead them “to one inevitable conclusion. That is the accused indecently assaulted Mr Huxley and then stabbed him to death.” An artery in Mr Huxley’s neck was severed by the stab wound, and the jury heard there was “blood pooled” around his body and ­“dripping” down the walls.

The court heard Mr Huxley, who owned a maritime maintenance business, had been having a work dispute with a man named John, who told him the week before the murder that he would “square him up if it was the last thing he would do.”

The trial continues today before Justice Robert Allan Hulme.