Discovery of a Dismembered Body

The head and clothing of the deceased were discarded in separate plastic bags. A roll of black plastic bags was found in the bathroom of a property the suspect was living in and a second roll was recovered from the suspect’s work place. These bags were examined to establish whether or not the bag containing the head and clothing came from the same roll as the bags recovered from the bathroom of the suspect’s house or workplace.

A comparison of the bags from the body and the clothes with those from the bathroom of the suspect found that they corresponded in relation to their physical appearance and their overall construction, including the heat seals, “extrusion” pattern and some small pigment flaws. These findings offered very strong support for the proposition that the bags came from the same roll found in the bathroom, rather than they did not come from this roll.

The bags from the suspect’s workplace were compared to the bags from the suspects bathroom and although there was some correspondence in the construction and physical appearance, the findings offered very strong support that the roll of bags from the bathroom of the suspect’s house did not come from the same manufacturing batch as the roll of bags from the workplace rather than they did.

A fingerprint matching the suspects’ was obtained from the plastic bag containing the clothing of the deceased.

A pair of bloodstained shoes discarded by the suspect were retrieved from a bin. The DNA profile of the bloodstaining matched that of the deceased.

The suspect who fled the jurisdiction was arrested on foot of a European Arrest Warrant.