UK - Colette Law, 26, found dead in churchyard, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, July 2023 *arrest*

[Luwin]

Spalding churchyard body: Murder arrest as woman identified

A 30-year-old Spalding man remains in custody on suspicion of murdering Colette Law, 26, from Greenock.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman found dead in a churchyard in Spalding, police said.
The body of Colette Law, 26, from Greenock, was found in a tent in the grounds of St Mary and St Nicholas Church on Monday.
Lincolnshire Police said a 30-year-old man from Spalding had been arrested on suspicion of murder and was being held in police custody.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

 

[Legally Bland]

A man has been charged with murder after the body of a woman was found in a tent in a churchyard in Lincolnshire.

The body of Colette Law, 26, was found in the grounds of St Mary and St Nicholas Church in Spalding.

Lincolnshire Police said Paul Neilson, 30, of no fixed address, will appear before magistrates in Lincoln on Monday.

Man charged with murder of 26-year-old Colette Law whose body was found in Spalding churchyard

The body of 26-year-old Colette Law was discovered in a tent in the grounds of St Mary and St Nicholas Church in Spalding, Lincolnshire.

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[Luwin]

Colette Law death: Man in court on Spalding churchyard murder charge

The body of Colette Law, 26, was found in a tent in the grounds of a church in Spalding on 17 July.

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At Lincoln Magistrates' Court, Mr Neilson, of Priory Road, Spalding, was remanded into custody to appear at Lincoln Crown Court on Tuesday.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Colette Law death: Trial date set for man on churchyard murder charge

Paul Neilson is accused of murdering Colette Law, whose body was found in a Spalding churchyard.

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Appearing at Lincoln Crown Court, Paul Neilson, 30, of Priory Road, Spalding, was told a provisional trial had been set for 22 January.

 

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From Jan. 2024: Jailed for 56 months

Man jailed after preventing Colette Law's body from being found

Paul Neilson admitted to assaulting Colette Law on three occasions and perverting the course of justice

www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk

A man has been jailed for four years and eight months after he prevented the body of a woman from being found in a Lincolnshire town. Paul Neilson, 30, of no fixed address, admitted to assaulting Colette Law on three occasions and perverting the course of justice.

Colette, 26, died on a summer's night in July last year. Her body lay undiscovered in a tent in the grounds of St Mary and St Nicolas Church in Spalding for a week until she was found on July 17.

Neilson persistently told people that she had gone back to Scotland, but he later admitted knowing that she had died in that tent and deliberately failed to alert any authorities. The delay in locating Colette's body inevitably delayed the HM Coroner from instructing a post mortem examination and the start of the police investigation.

The exact cause of death was not able to be established. Investigators initially charged Neilson with murder but those charges were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.

 

[Luwin]

Another paltry sentence!