A MURDER trial has been hearing from a soil expert.
Jurors heard that soil samples were taken from a spade, a shallow grave where Kevin Kennedy's body was found in Sneinton, and from gardens in Hucknall.
Duncan Pirrie, a doctor of forensic geology, compared soil from the spade with the two locations. He told Nottingham Crown Court yesterday, where Peter Healy, 51, of Lord Nelson Street, Sneinton, and Tara Swift, 41, of Leicester, are on trial for Mr Kennedy's murder, of his findings.
Dr Pirrie excluded the soil on the spade as being from the garden at the Hucknall property which had been visited by Healy. Healy had allegedly been seen at the address with a spade in a bin liner.
Dr Pirrie could not exclude the possibility that soil from a spade he checked and from the grave were from the same place. But he could not rule out that somewhere else in the country had an identical composition.
The body was found in undergrowth between Rossington Road and Burrows Court, Sneinton, on August 8 last year. The head and arms were missing.
Healy and his ex-lover Swift, who lived in Rossington Road, are accused of murdering her boyfriend, Mr Kennedy.
They are charged with perverting the course of justice by concealing and/or disposing of body parts. They deny all charges.
The case continues.
