A PATHOLOGIST could not say what killed a man whose dismembered body was found in a shallow grave in Sneinton, a jury heard.
Home Office pathologist Peter Vanezis was called to examine the headless and armless body of Kevin Kennedy, who was found covered in a duvet on August 8 last year.
The body was found in undergrowth on land between Rossington Road and Burrows Court, Sneinton.
There was a shoelace tied in a bow-knot on the outside of the lower end of the duvet cover, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Professor Vanezis described the dismemberment of 50-year-old of Mr Kennedy, concluding that the arms and head had been removed after he had died.
Peter Healy, 51, of Lord Nelson Street, Sneinton, and his ex-girlfriend, Tara Swift, 41, of West Street, Leicester, are on trial accused of Mr Kennedy's murder.
Healy and Swift are also charged with perverting the course of justice by concealing and/or disposing of the body and the body parts of Mr Kennedy.
Mr Kennedy was last seen alive on CCTV on July 17, walking toward Rossington Road, where his partner Swift lived at the time, with a blue carrier bag. The jury has heard that, the following day, Swift told a woman that Healy had beaten up Mr Kennedy and Mr Kennedy was begging her to call an ambulance.
Swift claimed she was too scared to do so, fearing that if she had called an ambulance, she, too, would have been beaten up by Healy.
The prosecution say that, within four hours of the last sighting of Mr Kennedy, he had been fatally attacked. The case continues.
