OAP, 94, takes gun into ward
Eight body parts ‘in clingfilm’
A PATIENT aged 94, found with a gun in hospital, told doctors she carried it in her handbag as protection.
Armed police raced to the acute elderly care ward and confirmed the firearm was the real thing – but it was rusty and not loaded.
The woman, who has not been named, had been in Walsall Manor Hospital for eight days with chest pains.
Police later searched her home in the West Midlands. They said: “An antique gun was found in the handbag of an elderly woman. [It] was not loaded or functional.” Pathologist Dr Deborah Cook said Becky’s body was cut up with a saw. “Eight parts were each wrapped in clingfilm and bags,” she told Bristol crown court.
“Asda carriers were also used, as well as two bathroom mats and a shower curtain for the torso.
“Some body parts were packed in salt, a preservative. Injuries to the mouth and nose were consis- tent with a hand causing suffocation.” Becky’s stepbrother Nathan Matthews, 28 admits killing and dismembering her but he and lover Shauna Hoare, 21, deny murder.
A pair in whose shed Becky was found admit assisting an offender but deny knowing her body was in the bags. The trial continues.