GUILTY UK - Phoenix Netts, 28, found in suitcase, Gloucestershire, 12 May 2020

[katydid23]

I'm not sure what's more bizarre, the facts so far or the way it's being reported

Every so often, I come check on this case....and I just sit and ponder a bit....

as it gets weirder and weirder, each time I come read here....

sure enough, the most recent info is stranger than the last bit I read....

 

[Ironside]

The taxi driver seemed to live a comfortable life. Wonder how he got mixed up with this duo? A little biz on the side, or did she just hail a cab?

I think he was more involved than just picking up a fare. The remains were over a month old so would have absolutely stank to high heaven. Also the dog breeders that called the police reported that he was skulking about a yard, if he was an innocent taxi driver why would he even need to leave his car? He’s up to his neck in it imo.

 

[JosieJo]

Very strange case ...I live close to the Wolverhampton address and know of the lozells area of Birmingham it's quite a "lively" area around crime

 

[JosieJo]

Regards the Wolverhampton address yes the house is a nice size detached house and there is talk of a range rover and the neighbour commenting on the family being "well off" in the articles already posted...but just for perspective..the estate the house is on is a privately built estate as opposed to local authority...and its reasonably nice but certainly not an "affluent area" it's not the type of area that would command really nice prices for property..I would describe it as a larger house on a middle the road estate...I wouldn't want people to imagine the area is high end with lots of "wealthy" residents

 

[Ironside]

The house is maybe “high end” for the area as in there’s plenty of less nice houses around which make his house look better. It certainly doesn’t seem comparable to Knightsbridge or anywhere dreadfully posh.

 

[Chelly]

I just recently listened to the audio version of this book, which featured an apparently famous murder in NY at the end of the nineteenth century, though the story was unfamiliar to me.

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Century-Scandalized-Sparked-Tabloid/dp/0307592219

It features a man who was murdered and then cut up (along the more traditional anatomical planes) and apparently there was an attempt to boil his legs, though I never understood why.

His upper torso was found in one package, his lower torso in another, and then later his legs were found. His head was apparently never found.

In spite of all the bizarre details (which this case promises to match) it was a fascinating story.

Thank you for book recommendation of the book on this similar crime. I'm checking it out on my Kindle. We are delving into a bizarre but fascinating subject.

 

[Chelly]

I'll do a bit of research, but does anyone know if respected MSM has reported on this case? Or, is the story only found in iffy tabloid publication?

 

[HongKongPhooey]

I'll do a bit of research, but does anyone know if respected MSM has reported on this case? Or, is the story only found in iffy tabloid publication?

It's on the Beeb:

Woman charged with murder over suitcase remains

 

[Alyce]

I'll do a bit of research, but does anyone know if respected MSM has reported on this case? Or, is the story only found in iffy tabloid publication?

far as I can see, they’ve all reported and with pretty much the same information

 

[KING Charles]

Looking on Google maps the address 20 salisbury road Lozells Birmingham states that a business is operating from this property. Khan Builders Contractors Ltd.
Yell also names the business at this address. Although you would never know from looking at the house from the outside.
Maybe the business moved on and it’s outdated.

 

[KING Charles]

Latest news..

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8329081/Torso-sawed-half-woman-living-refuge.html

 

[Sarahlou]

Latest news..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8329081/Torso-sawed-half-woman-living-refuge.html
Torso found sawed in half could be woman living in a refuge | Daily Mail Online

From this article:

A torso found in a suitcase in the Forest of Dean is feared to belong to a woman who had been living at a refuge but has not been seen ‘in weeks’.

Locals said a resident in her 20s had vanished on April 14 after a series of rows with another woman.

Her mobile phone went unanswered until it was disconnected last week – on the same day that a man and a woman were caught allegedly attempting to dispose of a body.

Officers are still waiting for DNA results to confirm the victim’s identity.

 

[Ironside]

This just gets stranger. If the victim was in a refuge was there any concern when she went missing?

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

This just gets stranger. If the victim was in a refuge was there any concern when she went missing?

And did anyone report her missing or at least go looking for her?

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Sawed-up torso found stuffed in suitcase 'was woman in her 20s who vanished from women's refuge'

Gareeca Conita Gordon, 27, who has been charged with murder, was said to be living at the same women's refuge in Birmingham where the victim is feared to have been killed and sawed in half.

Police are now waiting on DNA results to formally identify the victim but neighbours say she also lived at the seven-bed property.

It is understood the woman was last seen in April with her phone disconnected on Tuesday.

Forensic officers were seen at the council-licensed refuge at the weekend combing for clues.

 

[Sarahlou]

They lived at the same refuge? So whose house was it where all the blood was found?

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

They lived at the same refuge? So whose house was it where all the blood was found?

From that article it looks like the killing and sawing was done at the refuge. Maybe they're bedsit or apartment type rooms there? How would no one have noticed blood or the smell?

 

[Sarahlou]

From that article it looks like the killing and sawing was done at the refuge. Maybe they're bedsit or apartment type rooms there? How would no one have noticed blood or the smell?

Yes it does look like that. The mind boggles!!

 

[Alyce]

I think you're right ATWFD - sounds like a bedsit type set up with women staying when they needed to and then sometimes leaving suddenly.

Interesting the point re no men - so did Gareeca move the suitcases by herself ?





Yesterday a neighbour claimed the victim had been living in a refuge in Birmingham with four others. ‘There’s a lot of women who come and go from that house,’ they said. ‘They are all running from something. There are no men allowed. You hardly ever see men going in there. I’ve been told that the victim lived in the house.’

Another neighbour said: ‘There was a woman living in the front bedroom on the first floor but I haven’t seen her in weeks. Definitely not in the last month.


Torso found sawed in half could be woman living in a refuge | Daily Mail Online

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

I think you're right ATWFD - sounds like a bedsit type set up with women staying when they needed to and then sometimes leaving suddenly.

Interesting the point re no men - so did Gareeca move the suitcases by herself ?





Yesterday a neighbour claimed the victim had been living in a refuge in Birmingham with four others. ‘There’s a lot of women who come and go from that house,’ they said. ‘They are all running from something. There are no men allowed. You hardly ever see men going in there. I’ve been told that the victim lived in the house.’

Another neighbour said: ‘There was a woman living in the front bedroom on the first floor but I haven’t seen her in weeks. Definitely not in the last month.


Torso found sawed in half could be woman living in a refuge | Daily Mail Online

A taxi driver might be allowed in to carry suitcases?