THE man accused of murdering his wife and mother-in-law told jurors “it was a joke” that anyone could think he did it.

Ensar Gol also told his trial he was referring to ending the relationship when he said he would “cut” the pair.

The defendant was cross-examined at Oxford Crown Court yesterday and faced questions about messages he had written to a cousin on social networking site Facebook four hours before his mother-in law Julie Sahin, 50, and wife Michala Gol died.

He denies murdering the women and attempting to murder their friend Casey Wilson at his home in Ireton Court, Thame, on September 4.

Gol, who admitted to never having loved 28-year-old Michala, was chatting to a cousin on Facebook on the night in question.

In messages retrieved from his computer, Gol said: “I will cut them all.

“I will cut the mother-in-law and the wife.”

Answering in English with the aid of an interpreter, Gol said: “Cut does not mean just to cut, it’s to finish the relationship.”

Asked why he had also written “all the English papers will talk about me tomorrow, the crazy wolf, crazy Turk covered London with blood”, Gol said it was a reference to how the British media exaggerate small incidents such as one that could arise if Mrs Sahin attacked him.

As the defendant labelled the evidence against him “a joke”, prosecutor Dafydd Enoch said: “Mr Gol, you are the only person in this case who has treated what’s happened as a joke.”

“It’s a joke that you think I did this,” came the reply.

Reiterating that he acted in self-defence because Mrs Sahin came at him with a knife, Gol said: “The truth is exactly what I said yesterday.

“One hundred million billion times, if you ask me again I will tell you the same thing.”

Describing how the three women suffered dozens of stab wounds mainly around the neck, Gol said: “When I had control (of the knife) I lost my control... because I was still under attack.

“There was punching me, I was punching back, but I was differently punching because I had knife in my hand.”

Gol also told the court he is 22, but admitted many people in Turkey lie about their age to postpone national service.

He said he first got an ID card when he was three, adding: “It was not my decision, it was my family’s decision.”

He said he “must’ve been 18 or 19” when he first met Michala in Turkey in 2007.

The trial continues.