Murder jury out in trial of man who cut up fiancee's corpse

The jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering his fiancee, dismembering her body and dumping the remains retired to consider its verdict today.

Alan Cameron, 56, is accused of killing mother-of-four Heather Stacey at her Edinburgh flat between November 29 and December 11 2007.

Shop worker Cameron has admitted hiding the 44-year-old's body for more than a year and then dumping the decomposed remains. He denies murder.

His trial has heard that a dog walker found the woman's severed head in a bag beside a footpath in Edinburgh's Newhaven area on Hogmanay 2008.

Cameron has been on trial at the High Court in Livingston since the start of last week.

The jurors retired this morning after judge Lord Matthews gave them his directions in law.