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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matthew Cooper

Lab worker strangled colleague and then staged ‘cunning’ cover-up, court told -OLD

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A lab worker strangled a colleague, cut her throat to make sure she was dead, and then dumped her body in undergrowth beside a country lane, a murder trial has heard.

A jury at Leicester Crown Court was told that Ross McCullum killed Megan Newborough at his home and immediately staged a “calculated and carefully executed” cover-up, including leaving phone messages professing love and supposed concern for her.

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