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Couple guilty of lay-by killing | Couple guilty of lay-by killing |
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Two people have been found guilty of murdering a 45-year-old woman whose battered body was found dumped in a Gwynedd lay-by last year. | Two people have been found guilty of murdering a 45-year-old woman whose battered body was found dumped in a Gwynedd lay-by last year. |
Kathy Williams, 31, and her partner Christopher Reed, 40 had both blamed each other for the murder at their flat in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. | Kathy Williams, 31, and her partner Christopher Reed, 40 had both blamed each other for the murder at their flat in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. |
The partly-clothed body of Lorraine Jones, from Leeswood, Mold, was found near Bala in June 2005. | The partly-clothed body of Lorraine Jones, from Leeswood, Mold, was found near Bala in June 2005. |
Mold Crown Court had heard how Ms Jones died after a "drunken orgy". | Mold Crown Court had heard how Ms Jones died after a "drunken orgy". |
The divorcee, who had one teenage son, was found with multiple injuries to her head and upper body. | The divorcee, who had one teenage son, was found with multiple injuries to her head and upper body. |
The pair had blamed each other for the murder at their flat | |
Her body had been dumped on rough ground, near the A4212 Bala to Trawsfynydd road. | Her body had been dumped on rough ground, near the A4212 Bala to Trawsfynydd road. |
She was naked apart from a pair of tracksuit bottoms which were around her lower legs. She had been dead for some time. | |
The prosecution said she had been the victim of a "sustained and brutal attack". | The prosecution said she had been the victim of a "sustained and brutal attack". |
"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," Peter Hughes QC, prosecuting, told the court. | "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," Peter Hughes QC, prosecuting, told the court. |
"She had been beaten, she had been stabbed, and it was subsequently discovered that she had been strangled." | "She had been beaten, she had been stabbed, and it was subsequently discovered that she had been strangled." |