«Breaking News» Couple 'bludgeoned boy, 17, to death then hid his body in loft for eight months, court heard

Stacy Docherty, 28, and Gary Hopkins, 37, allegedly murdered Abdi Ali with a claw hammer and 16cm long knife at their second floor flat in Enfield, north London, on December 21 2017

 A couple killed a 17-year-old boy and hid his body in their attic, a court has heard.

Stacy Docherty, 28, and Gary Hopkins, 37, allegedly murdered Abdi Ali with a claw hammer and 16cm long knife at their second floor flat in Enfield, north London, on December 21 2017.

They bundled his body in a duvet cover and hid it in their loft for the next eight months, before allowing a visitor to see his insect-infested body, the Old Bailey in London heard.

Detectives were then tipped off by a friend of the couple after they allowed the visitor to see the body.

The bloodstained murder weapons were also stashed in the attic, jurors were told. 

Prosecutor Gareth Patterson QC said Docherty allegedly admitted to a friend that the motive was for the murder was financial because she wanted to 'give her children a good Christmas'.

Opening the case, he said the defendants, who have three children, often took drugs at their flat at the time of Mr Ali's death.

He said: 'Having killed him, they then wrapped up his body inside a duvet cover.

'They hid it in their attic along with the murder weapons - a claw hammer and a knife.

'They did this to try to get away with what they had done.'

The lawyer said Mr Ali's family had reported him missing and police had tried in vain to find him.

His body lay undiscovered in the loft of a house in Hartmoor Mews (pictured) 

He said: 'Meanwhile, as the months passed by, these defendants kept that body of Abdi Ali hidden away up in that attic.

'It began to decompose through the spring and summer.

'About eight months went by before it was finally discovered, by that stage having suffered serious decomposition and become infested with insects and the like.

'It was not until the end of August last summer that the family's worst fears were finally confirmed when the police had to deliver to them the terrible news about the discovery of the body.'

Abdi had been stabbed at least 11 times in the chest and at least once in the neck.

Injuries to his back suggested that the knife went all the way through his chest at least four times, court heard. 

He was hit with the hammer at least three times on the top of the head, the Old Bailey heard. 

His body was so badly decomposed and infested with insects that experts could not tell whether any of the stab wounds reached his heart.  

Mr Patterson explained how Hopkins and Docherty told visitors to the flat about the body in the attic in August last year.

The coupe bundled his body in a duvet cover and hid it in their loft for the next eight months, before allowing a visitor to see the grisly secret in the attic, the Old Bailey in London (pictured) heard.

 Docherty's friends, Stacie Collard, Liana Keenan and her boyfriend turned up there to find the pair indoors with another drug dealer.

When the man refused to hand Hopkins any more drugs, the three visitors accompanied him to get some cash out, court heard.

Hopkins became anxious when his dealer refused to give him more drugs, the court heard.

On the way to a cash machine, Hopkins talked about wanting to rob the dealer and kill him as he had done with Mr Ali, the jury was told.

In the car, Hopkins told Ms Collard he was 'angry' and wanted to rob and kill the dealer, adding that he had done this before, it is claimed. 

When they got back, Hopkins allegedly told Docherty 'I've told them about the attic' and she burst into tears.

She went into the bathroom and confided in one of the visitors that she knew about what happened before Christmas, Mr Patterson said. 

When police searched the attic, they found Abdi's body wrapped in a black and red duvet cover with plastic bags over his head.

When the Abdi's body was discovered in August last year he had not been seen since a family wedding eight months before.  

An earlier hearing heard, a post-mortem examination gave the cause of Abdi's death as a blunt force trauma to the head and stab wounds to the chest. 

Hopkins and Docherty, both of north London, deny murder.

Hopkins admits perverting the course of justice and preventing the lawful burial of a body but Docherty denies the same offences.

Docherty claims Hopkins is the killer and that he put Abdi's body in the loft without her help 

The trial continues.  

 

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Stacy Docherty, 28, and Gary Hopkins, 37, allegedly murdered Abdi Ali with a claw hammer and 16cm long knife at their second floor flat in Enfield, north London, on December 21 2017

 A couple killed a 17-year-old boy and hid his body in their attic, a court has heard.
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