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| Nicola Payne death: Mum 'abducted and murdered' in 1991 | Nicola Payne death: Mum 'abducted and murdered' in 1991 |
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| A teenage mother was abducted and murdered as she crossed wasteland to her parent's house more than 23 years ago, a court has heard. | A teenage mother was abducted and murdered as she crossed wasteland to her parent's house more than 23 years ago, a court has heard. |
| Nicola Payne, 18, disappeared after leaving her partner and baby son at home in December 1991. Her body has never been found. | Nicola Payne, 18, disappeared after leaving her partner and baby son at home in December 1991. Her body has never been found. |
| Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law, Thomas O'Reilly, from Coventry, are accused of her murder. | Nigel Barwell and his brother-in-law, Thomas O'Reilly, from Coventry, are accused of her murder. |
| Prosecutor Andrew Smith QC said: "It was a journey she never completed." | Prosecutor Andrew Smith QC said: "It was a journey she never completed." |
| Opening the case against the men, who both deny murder, Mr Smith said teenager's journey across the patch of land, known as the Black Pad, should have taken a few minutes. | Opening the case against the men, who both deny murder, Mr Smith said teenager's journey across the patch of land, known as the Black Pad, should have taken a few minutes. |
| 'Tried it on' | |
| "The prosecution case is that Nicola Payne was abducted as she walked across the waste ground," he said. | "The prosecution case is that Nicola Payne was abducted as she walked across the waste ground," he said. |
| "At some point thereafter she was was murdered and her body disposed of." | "At some point thereafter she was was murdered and her body disposed of." |
| Birmingham Crown Court heard Mr Barwell, of Copperas Street, and Mr O'Reilly, of Ribble Road, are now aged 51 but were both 27 at the time of her disappearance, on 14 December. | |
| They were first arrested three days after Ms Payne, who had a seven-month-old son, Owen, with her boyfriend Jason Cook, disappeared. | |
| The court was told a man walking his dog nearby at the time heard a woman scream and another witness described seeing the defendants, later the same afternoon, parked near a river with what appeared to be a full black bag. | |
| Mr Smith QC told the jury that Mr Barwell had "tried it on" with Ms Payne in a pub two months before she disappeared. | |
| The trial continues. | The trial continues. |