And dismembering friend
ed to share the next chapter of her life.”
He told the court that the pain experienced by the family was “exacerbated by the knowledge of the manner of her death and the defendant impersonating her”.
Bristol Crown Court heard Gordon used the mobile phone of Ms Netts to contact her friends and family, claiming she was safe and well, for weeks after the murder .
Her father Mark Netts said in his statement: “Our lives have been irreversibly changed and the anguish is indescribable.”
The court heard her mother Saskia described herself as “forever devastated, forever empty”.