Jury sent home in Tomas Uptas murder trial
Comments |
A jury in the trial of a man
accused of strangling his girlfriend in a jealous rage has has
been sent home over the weekend.
Tomas Uptas is alleged to have killed Loretta Raupiene in
November last year because he could not bear the thought of losing
her.
Her body was discovered at the flat they shared in Victoria
Road, Canterbury, after the 32-year-old Lithuanian carpenter armed
himself with a BB gun and alarmed shoppers at Wincheap's Morrison's
supermarket.
He was shot in the arm by armed police and arrested after being
treated in hospital.
Maidstone Crown Court heard Miss Raupiene, 42, was strangled
with her own scarf at the flat.
A pathologist estimated she had been dead about eight hours when
her body was found on November 26.
Uptas, who has been convicted of violence in Sweden, denied
murder, claiming he last saw the victim that day when she went to
pay the rent.
He admitted falsely imprisoning David Bowles when holding a gun
at his head and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of
violence.
Friday, July 30 2010
The KM Group does not moderate comments.
Please click here for our house rules.