UK lunatic butchered roommate, stashed her dismembered body in freezer for 3 years with slain pet guinea pigs: prosecutors

A UK man killed his close friend and roommate and stashed her dismembered body in a freezer for three years alongside her five guinea pigs he’d drowned, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.George Gordon, 65, is accused of butchering Delia McInerney in April 2023 after he found out she planned to permanently move to Portugal where she had another home, prosecutors alleged at the start of his trial.Gordon, of St Helens, a large town in the North West region of England, then allegedly drained the bank accounts of McInerney, a 62-year-old artist.He also allegedly opened credit cards in her name, racking up £22,000 of debt — the equivalent of nearly $30,000, according to a report by the Daily Mail, citing the prosecutor.Gordon also pretended to be McInerney in messages and emails to her friends and family who’d grown concerned about her whereabouts — all “bare-faced lies” to hide what he’d done, prosecutor Martin Reid alleged.Gordon carried on with the charade for 18 months, Reid claimed.“Unbeknown to them, but known very well to the defendant, Delia McInerney had died in April 2023 at the defendant’s hands,” the prosecutor told the jury.“Her dismembered body was found in a chest freezer in the defendant’s flat on January 8 this year,” he added.Gordon, who was not present in the Liverpool Crown Court Wednesday, allegedly bought a sledgehammer, a cordless handsaw, the textbook “Gray’s Anatomy,” and drugs in the weeks and months before her death, prosecutors alleged.After the killing, Gordon allegedly went to a bar and ordered a chest freezer on Amazon which he used to hide her remains for years until cops raided his apartment.“She’s in the freezer,” the accused killer allegedly told the officers during the Jan.

8 search.Gordon was motivated to murder her partly for “financial gain” and partly out of his concern she was moving away.McInerney and Gordon were friends for years and she lived with him part time even though she had her own...