Woman Killed, Chopped Up By Stranger Who Lured Her Home After Sexual Encounter

A 32-year-old woman was murdered and chopped into seven pieces by a man she met during a night out, a U.K. Court heard on Tuesday.

The Exeter Crown Court was told that Lorraine Cox went missing in the early hours of Sept. 1, 2020. The police found her mutilated body in the woodlands on the outskirts of the city a week later, reported BBC News.

Azam Mangori, 24, has been linked to her murder. Prosecutor Simon Laws told the court that Mangori met Cox while she was walking home after having a few drinks with her friends. Mangori allegedly took advantage of the victim's inebriated state to have sex with her in an alleyway before luring her to his home above a kebab shop on Fore Street.

"He led her back to his room above a kebab shop in the city center and he killed her there. He cut her body up into seven pieces and disposed of them. He mutilated the body in other ways and disposed of her clothing and all the possessions she had with her," Laws told the court.

Mangori then took her SIM card from her phone and used it to pretend to be her. "To pretend to the world she was still alive. In summary, he went to enormous efforts to get away with his crime but those efforts were all in vain," the prosecutor said as per Devon Live.

A CCTV footage showing Cox with the accused the night she went missing was also shown to the jury. According to the prosecutor, Cox was extremely drunk but agreed to the sexual encounter in the alleyway.

Mangori, who was sober at the time, recorded the act using his phone. Laws said that Mangori could be heard in the video inviting Cox to his flat for drugs and alcohol.

The CCTV footage also showed an unsteady Cox walking to Mangori's flat. She would never be seen alive again.

The court was then told about the evidence that showed Cox cut up in Mangori's room. It also heard that prior to the killing, the accused had looked up how to cup up a body online and watched a video about dismemberment.

Mangori, who was born in a Kurdish area of Iraq and had been living in Exeter since July last year, did not plead guilty to murder. He however admitted to preventing a lawful burial.