A horror film fan accused of murdering and dismembering a woman is alleged to have raped a second victim near a canal and threatened to kill her, a jury has heard.
Nathan Maynard-Ellis, 30, is alleged to have told the second alleged victim where he would hide her body if he killed her. Coventry Crown Court was told on Wednesday that 42-year-old Julia Rawson was killed and dismembered into 11 pieces after she was lured to a "flat of horrors" in Tipton, West Midlands, in May 2019.
Prosecutors allege that Maynard-Ellis and his boyfriend, 25-year-old David Leesley, walked along a canal near their flat to hide Ms Rawson's body parts in undergrowth.
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