Jury out in teacher murder trial

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A jury is considering its verdict over a man accused of murdering teacher Jane Longhurst in Sussex in 2003.

Graham Coutts, 39, of Waterloo Street, Hove, is accused of strangling her in order to satisfy a "perverted sexual interest" in violence towards women.

He claims she died accidentally during consensual sex which involved him restricting her breathing with tights.

Jurors were told they could consider a manslaughter verdict if they found Coutts not guilty of murder.

The body of 31-year-old Miss Longhurst, a special needs teacher originally from Reading, Berkshire, was put into storage after her death and then taken to a secluded spot near Pulborough, West Sussex, and set alight.