A man beat his girlfriend to death with a rock and a metal pole and disposed of her body, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Dean Lowe, 33, is accused of murdering Kirby Noden in January 2017 at the flat they shared in Marazion, Cornwall.<\/p>\n
Prosecution QC Paul Dunkels said the defendant had flushed parts of her body down a toilet and lived at the “blood-stained” property for four months.<\/p>\n
Mr Lowe, of Beacon Road, Marazion, has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder at Truro Crown Court.<\/p>\n
Mr Dunkels said Ms Noden’s blood was on the weapons used to murder her, as well as being spattered around the flat and “soaked into the bed’s mattress”.<\/p>\n
The prosecution said nobody knew what had happened to Ms Noden for four months, until May 2017.<\/p>\n
“The defendant then contacted his family in Cheshire to say there had been a body on the floor which he had cut up and put into bins and flushed down the toilet,” said Mr Dunkels.<\/p>\n
The family contacted police who went to the flat to question Mr Lowe, the barrister said.<\/p>\n
Mr Dunkels said when a police officer visited his flat Mr Lowe “admitted to the police officer he had killed Kirby Noden and disposed of her body”.<\/p>\n
The court has heard that the couple had lived together for a number of years.<\/p>\n
Originally from Winsford, Cheshire, they moved to south-west England and lived in Torquay, Devon, and Launceston, Cornwall, before moving to Marazion.<\/p>\n
The court heard that they lived “a chaotic lifestyle marked by the use of various illegal drugs”.<\/p>\n
Mr Lowe had sent several messages to family members, the court was told.<\/p>\n
On 3 May, he said in a conversation on Facebook Messenger that he was “waiting for judgment day”.<\/p>\n
Mr Dunkels said: “He was waiting for judgment day as he was living in the flat where he had killed Kirby Noden and her murder was undiscovered.”<\/p>\n
“The blood-stained weapons he used to bludgeon her to death were still there,” he added. “Her blood was all around him – on the floor, on the mattress and on the walls.”<\/p>\n
Mr Dunkels said for Mr Lowe to continue to live in the flat “for four months in the midst of this must have been gruesome”.<\/p>\n
“Who could live alongside the decaying corpse of their murder victim?” he asked. “But he did little else to clean up the flat.”<\/p>\n
The trial continues.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"