Murder trial jury hear first witnesses

THE jury in the trial of four people accused in connection with the murder of an elderly woman, dumping her body near Thame and then setting fire to it, today heard from the two friends of hers who first alerted the police to her disappearance. They heard too, how the woman accused of murdering 94 year-old, Mrs Thea Zaudy, told two of her alleged accomplices that a suitcase they carried around the London tube contained wet blankets.

Oxford Crown Court also heard Queen’s Council for the Prosecution describe how evidence would show that Jolanta Kalinowsica, her son, Adrian Lis and his girlfriend, Monilca Sienkievicv, used Mrs Zaudy’s Debit card to spend around