A JUDGE has begun summing up in the trial of two people accused of the murder of a man whose decapitated body was found in a shallow grave in Sneinton.
Peter Healy, 51, of Lord Nelson Street, Sneinton, and his ex-girlfriend, Tara Swift, 41, of West Street, Leicester, deny the murder of her boyfriend, Kevin Kennedy.
They went on trial at Nottingham Crown Court in April.
Mr Justice Flaux has been reminding the jury about the evidence they have heard.
Mr Kennedy's body was found in undergrowth on land between Rossington Road and Burrows Court, Sneinton, on August 8 last year.
His headless and armless corpse was inside a checked duvet cover.
His head and arms have never been found.
Healy and Swift, who allegedly murdered him three weeks earlier, are also charged with perverting the course of justice between July 17 and August 8, 2012, by concealing and/or disposing of the body and the body parts of 50-year-old Mr Kennedy.
Mr Kennedy was last seen alive on CCTV on July 17, walking toward Rossington Road with a blue carrier bag. The jury had been told that the following day Swift told a woman that Healy had been beating up Mr Kennedy and Mr Kennedy had been 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 claim in due course Swift presented herself to police as a "helpless bystander" – helpless to prevent a horrific assault which she says she witnessed by Healy on Mr Kennedy.
Healy allegedly told a friend in Hucknall he had been in a fight with a man at "Tara's place".
The prosecution say that within four hours of the last sighting of Mr Kennedy he had been fatally attacked.
Healy had allegedly been well aware that Mr Kennedy was the new man in Swift's life.
The case continues.
