The man accused of murdering Tia Sharp was "no ogre", according to a statement from her grandmother read in court.
Stuart Hazell was Christine Bicknell's boyfriend when Tia went missing and the girl's grandmother described how the schoolgirl "idolised" him.
The statement, read to jurors at the Old Bailey by junior prosecutor, Jocelyn Ledward, said: "When Tia went missing it didn't cross my mind that she could be dead. I always thought she was coming home. It didn't cross my mind that he would hurt her. He loved Tia, she idolised him.
"I love Stuart with all my heart, he was my world, but my grandchildren always came first.
"Tia will ask Stuart if she can stay for the weekend before she asks me. The majority of the time he has her more than what I do. She is his cling-on."
Hazell, 37, of New Addington, south London, is charged with killing the young girl between August 2 and 10 last year.
Her body was found in the loft of her grandmother's house, a week after she went missing.
Ms Bicknell said all her grandchildren "loved him to pieces".
She said she had thought back over her relationship and had not noticed any particular changes, nor had any worries about Hazell being around Tia.
Her statement said Hazell was not somebody she "dragged in from the street", but had had a relationship with him for more than five years.
"Tia was not the sort of girl you could groom," she said. "She was a mouthy 12-year-old - you couldn't force her to do anything.
"She is a mini Natalie (Tia's mother), which is a mini-me."
She added: "I knew nothing about her death. If I knew, he could be dead - I would be inside because I would have killed him. I found out the same time as everybody else, that Friday. I didn't know anything."
Ms Bicknell said that Hazell would get "argumentative" after drinking vodka, but that she had told him not to consume it in the house.
He would, however, drink lager and smoke two cannabis joints per day.
Hazell, who had previously dated Tia's mother, moved in with Ms Bicknell a week after their relationship started in 2007, the court heard.
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