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Woman's murder 'brutal' jury told Woman's murder 'brutal' jury told
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A single mother, whose body was found dumped at a Snowdonia beauty spot, had been beaten, stabbed and strangled, a jury has been told. A woman whose body was found dumped in Snowdonia had so many injuries it was hard to say which of two defendants had killed her, a trial jury has been told.
The body of Lorraine Jones, 45, from Leeswood near Mold, was found near Bala, Gwynedd in June 2005. The body of single mother Lorraine Jones, 45, from Leeswood near Mold, was found dumped near Bala, in June 2005.
But it is claimed she was killed in a "sustained and brutal attack" at the home of a couple in Ellesmere Port. Mold Crown Court heard there was also evidence to suggest a sadistic or sexual motive to the attack.
Christopher Reed, 40, and Kathy Williams, 30, both deny murder. The trial is expected to last four weeks. Christopher Reed, 40, and his partner Kathy Williams, 30, from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, both deny murder.
Prosecuting barrister Mr Peter Hughes QC told Mold Crown Court that the defendants had been the last to see Ms Jones alive. Prosecuting barrister Peter Hughes QC told the jury that the defendants had been the last to see Ms Jones alive at their flat and suspicion fell on them.
He said there was evidence to suggest there was a sadistic or sexual motive to the attack. Her body was discovered dumped in rough ground, near the A4212 Bala to Trawsfynydd road.
"It was readily apparent by looking at the body that she had been the victim of a sustained and brutal attack," he told the jury at the opening of the trial. She had been beaten, she had been stabbed, and it was subsequently discovered that she had been strangled Peter Hughes QC
The jury was told that each of the defendants blamed each other for Ms Jones's murder. Mr Hughes said: "She was naked apart from a pair of track suit bottoms which were around the lower part of her legs.
Ms Williams is also charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. "She had been dead for some time.
"It was readily apparent by looking at the body that she had been the victim of a sustained and brutal attack," he said..
"There was hardly a part of her body that had not been injured in some way or other and the injuries had been inflicted by a number of different means.
"She had been beaten, she had been stabbed, and it was subsequently discovered that she had been strangled.
'Pack of lies'
"So extensive were her injuries that it is hard to say just which of them actually killed her."
Mr Hughes said that the defendants blamed each other for the murder and they had told police "a pack of lies" about what had happened.
Mr Hughes said: "Each claims to have been asleep in bed while the other, acting alone, single-handedly and single-mindedly carried out the fatal attack.
"They each claim to have only discovered the horror of what had happened later when they woke up the following morning."
The prosecution case was that their revised and re-scripted version of events was no more than a desperate attempt to save their own skin at the expense of each other.
Ms Williams is also charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice by agreeing to dispose of the body, concealing Ms Jones' clothing and personal property, and giving a false account to police about when she had last seen her.
The trial is expected to last four weeks.