MOTHER-of-three Kimberley MacKenzie’s decapitated head was found wrapped in black bin bags inside a a green suitcase in a shower cubicle, a court has heard.
Detective Constable Victor Whyte told the High Court in Glasgow the suitcase and a pink rucksack were discovered in a shower cubicle at a house in Montrose in November 2015.
Inside the double-wrapped bag containing her head there was also a necklace.
He was giving evidence at the trial of Steven Jackson, 40, and Michelle Higgins, 29, who deny murdering 37-year-old Ms MacKenzie in Montrose on October 27, 2015, and cutting up her body.
The jury was shown photographs of the suitcase and its bagged-up contents. There were three separate packages bagged in black bin bags which had been knotted.
DC Whyte said: “Within the bin liners there were body parts.”
The court heard the three packages contained the head of Ms MacKenzie and her thighs. Inside the pink rucksack, the jury heard, were Ms MacKenzie’s left knee and lower leg and her left hand and arm. Each limb was wrapped inside knotted black bin bags.
Her left hand and arm and right upper arm were wrapped in an Asda bag.
The jury earlier heard five other body parts were found in four bins.
Mr Jackson and Ms Higgins are accused of murdering Ms MacKenzie by repeatedly striking her on the head, neck and body with a hammer or similar instrument at 40a Market Street, Montrose, on October 27, last year. Both deny the charges against them. The trial continues.
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