Weapon shown in Spector trial

The bloody revolver found at the feet of an actress shot to death in Phil Spector's mansion has been shown to jurors at the US music producer's Los Angeles murder trial.

Los Angeles County sheriff's Detective Mark Lillienfeld on Tuesday donned gloves as he handled the gun still covered with dried blood.

The Colt Cobra revolver was not registered and never definitively linked to Spector, although prosecutors argued he used it to shoot Lana Clarkson on February 3, 2003. The defence argues Clarkson shot herself.

She had accompanied Spector to his mansion after meeting him at her job as a hostess at the House of Blues just hours before her death.

The detective also showed jurors photographs to point out a holster in an open drawer of a bureau near the spot where Clarkson's body was found slumped in a chair in the ornate foyer of Spector's castle-like mansion.

The holster also fit the gun, Lillienfeld testified. Lillienfeld also testified about Spector's small arsenal, including two fully loaded blue steel handguns, an unloaded 12-gauge pump shotgun and ammunition tucked away in his home.

The dozens of rounds of ammunition were the same type found in the gun that killed Clarkson, he said.

Spector's briefcase was on a chair next to Clarkson's body, Lillienfeld said, adding it contained some over-the-counter medications and a tinfoil with one Viagra pill and empty spaces for two more.

There was also a DVD player with a movie in it, an old black-and-white called 'Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye'.

The prosecution previously called several women from Spector's past to testify that he had threatened them with guns when they picked up their handbags and tried to leave his presence.

Prosecutor Pat Dixon had Lillienfeld point out in the photographs a leopard-print bag that hung over the right shoulder of Clarkson's body. Her right hand rested atop the bag, which sat on the floor.

The coroner who conducted Clarkson's post mortem examination and ruled her death a murder testified previously that the presence of the handbag on her shoulder was one of the non-medical observations that led him to rule out suicide.