A man laid in wait for his ex-girlfriend in woodland before kidnapping and murdering her, a court heard. Andrew Lee Pearson wept during a 999 call to police in which he said Natalie Harker had slipped and fallen in a stream and that he had tried to perform CPR on her but then he passed out for hours, Teesside Crown Court heard.
He claimed to have woken up and found her "purple" and with foam coming from her mouth in the tent where he had been staying in woods near her home, he told the emergency call-handler.
He had sex with her either before or after she died, the court heard. Pearson, of Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, denies murder and kidnap.
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