Montrose murder trial

Officers say accused confessed to killing and dismemberment Moments after the arrival of PC he had finished Miss MacKenzie Garry Smith and PC Michael off by cutting her throat using a Woodburn at his flat on November yellow-handled saw.” 4, Steven Jackson had admitted He was confessing at such a killing his former partner Kimberley rate, the court heard, that the MacKenzie, PC Smith said. officers had trouble keeping up

He told the High Court in with their note-taking. Glasgow Jackson had made a The court was told he admitted series of admissions that began cutting Miss Jackson’s body into with his knowledge of her killing numerous pieces in the bathtub. and his part in her death, before The parts were then placed in black detailing her dismemberment and bags, one of which burst and spilled the disposal of her body in bins blood on the living room floor. across Montrose. PC Smith said: “He said that he

PC Smith said Jackson, had cut her arms at the wrists, at identified in court as a drug dealer, the elbows and the shoulders, that confided in the officers that Miss he had cut her head off and cut her MacKenzie had visited his flat and torso in two. offered sex in exchange for drugs. “He had also cut her thighs off.”

That was overheard by The body parts, he told the co-accused Michelle Higgins, officers, had been placed in nearby a heroin addict and his current bins on the street. partner, who had been in the flat’s He later admitted some parts single bedroom. had been moved to a house

He said she had run from the elsewhere in Montrose. room with a hammer and had CCTV footage was shown of struck Miss Mackenzie “six or Jackson and Higgins pulling suitcases seven times in the head”. through the streets between

PC Smith continued: “He told us two locations named in charges.