Witness tells of man driving near Prue Bird's home before disappearance AN acquaintance of murdered schoolgirl Prue Bird has told a court she believes a man seen driving near Prue's home before the teen's disappearance was convicted killer Leslie Camilleri. The acquaintance, referred to only as Witness M, told the Supreme Court today that she was at the Bird family home in late January 1992 when an unknown man knocked on the door and spoke to Prue. She said she did not see the man but heard him ask for someone called Daniel, before leaving. Leslie Camilleri has pleaded guilty to the 13-year-old's murder, but disputes aspects of the prosecution's case. Camilleri's contested plea hearing has heard that less than an hour later Witness M was walking from the Birds' home in Glenroy when a man in a blue car drove past her beeping his horn, before turning the vehicle around and waving at her. The man driving the car stopped and continued to smile and wave at Witness M, the hearing has been told. "I had that sick feeling," Witness M said in court today. The court heard the witness and Prue had agreed that the man, said to have had blond hair and a big nose and wearing a blue jumper, was the same person who knocked on the door. Witness M said that in late 2009 or early 2010 she was shown a Herald Sun article nominating Camilleri as the prime suspect for Prue's kidnapping and murder. She said when she saw the photo of Camilleri in the newspaper article, she had the same "sick feeling" she experienced when she had seen the driver of the blue car in Glenroy in 1992. "The guy had always been in the back of my head," Witness M said of the driver in court today. In my heart it was him (Camilleri). The court has been told a criminal associate of Camilleri named Mark McConville - who has been implicated in Prue's kidnapping - owned a blue Ford Laser hatchback at the time. McConville is now dead. Camilleri, 43, is serving life without parole for the shocking 1997 murders of raped Bega schoolgirls Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins. He has pleaded guilty to murdering 13-year-old Prue, who vanished from her home on February 2, 1992. But he is disputing parts of the Crown case. He claims he encountered Prue in her street while hunting a man who abused him when he was younger. After asking Prue a question and being told "where to go," he choked her unconscious, hog-tied her and put her in his car. He said he realised later she was not breathing. Crown prosecutor Michele Williams has rejected his version of events, saying evidence suggests Camilleri had acted with McConville to snatch Prue from her home. A woman who claims to have been locked in a backyard shed with kidnapped Prue has told the court she believed they were held captive for up to two days. The female witness said she awoke in McConville's shed feeling drugged and found a slim, dark-haired young teenager with her. "She was quite distressed and upset," the woman, referred to as Witness K, has told the hearing. Defence barrister John Kelly questioned the truth of Witness K's evidence during cross-examination.