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Sam Russell

Murder accused ‘dumped victim’s phone to put police off trail’, court told

Roy Barclay is on trial at Ipswich Crown Court accused of the murder of Anita Rose (Suffolk Police/PA) -

A fugitive who is accused of murdering a grandmother while she was out walking her dog took her phone to a town centre three days later and dumped it there to “put the police off the trail”, a court heard.

Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC told jurors at Ipswich Crown Court that Roy Barclay, 56, had been “unlawfully at large” for two years at the time he was said to have killed Anita Rose.

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