A couple dragged their friend’s dead body ‘face down through the mud’ before dumping it by a primary school. Robert Halliwell, 48, and Melanie Bullen, 53, had been taking drugs alongside Kerry Newman when they woke up to find she had died.
They both ‘bundled’ her into Halliwell’s car, drove half a mile away and dragged her body to an alleyway by Ashfield Valley Primary School and the Sandbrook Retail Park in Rochdale.
She was discovered face down, partially clothed, by members of the public on New Barn Lane, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
Following a post mortem, 40-year-old Kerry Newman's cause of death was said to be aspiration pneumonia due to drug toxicity.
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