‘Blood splatter’ alerted police

Bodies were discovered when security firm could not make contact with man

A man and a woman were found dead in a flat after a security firm failed to make contact with the male who was wearing an electronic tag.

A murder trial yesterday heard that police were alerted and a constable who attended at the house in Rosefield Street, Dundee, saw “blood splatter” inside the property.

PC Aaron Brake said: “It looked like something had happened within the property. I could see various items strewn about.”

He said he had contacted his control room to get in touch with public works to force the lock so that the inside of the flat could be examined.

After a joiner had forced the lock, PC Brake said he saw a dead woman inside the flat and a man’s legs hanging out from a bedroom door.

The officer was giving evidence at the High Court in Edinburgh on the first day of the trial of Krzysztof Gadecki for the murders of Ronald Kidd and Holly Alexander.

Gadecki, 38, has denied the charges and lodged a special defence of selfdefence claiming that he had been assaulted by the deceased.

He is alleged to have murdered Mr Kidd, 40, by repeatedly striking him on the head and body with a knife or similar instrument between December 8 and 11 last year at his home at 20G Rosefield Street .

He is also charged with murdering Ms Alexander, 37, at the flat where she was staying by repeatedly striking her on the body with a knife or similar instrument between the same dates.

Gadecki is also charged with stealing a set of keys, three watches, a pocket watch, a silver chain, a flask, two wallets and their contents, money and drugs.

He is further accused of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by putting clothing in a washing machine and disposing of training shoes and a mobile phone.

The court heard that Mr Kidd was the subject of a restriction of liberty order at the time which required him to remain at home between 7 pm and 7 am the following day.

On December 11 security firm G4S received an alert notification from a monitoring unit that the electronic tag fitted to Mr Kidd had not left his home address for a period of three days.

Staff made several attempts to contact him via the unit but there was no reply and the firm then contacted police to request that officers attend at the address.

Lindsay Brown told the court that a man he knew as “Kris” and identified as Gadecki had put a chain through the letterbox of a house he was staying at. He said he also had a heavy silver watch and a tub of valium tablets.

Mr Brown said: “He was wanting to gain entry to the house,” adding that he had also pulled out a wallet containing £20 notes.

He agreed he had earlier told police in a statement: “He said ‘we go buy heroin’ but I said ‘no’. I knew he was trying to get in.”

The trial continues.

Holly Alexander, left, and Ronald Kidd were found dead in December last year.