Man ‘died burying body’

A 60-YEAR-OLD man who strangled his girlfriend died of a heart attack while burying her body in their back garden, investigators in the US have said.

Deputies found Joseph Anthony Mckinnon’s body after neighbours called and reported an unconscious man in a garden in Trenton, South Carolina, the Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office said.

As they investigated Mckinnon’s death, deputies found a body wrapped in rubbish bags in a freshly dug hole and determined it was his girlfriend.