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

[jiminy]

Maybe a friendly taxi driver delivered it.

Maybe she knows someone in the building trade.

 

[Amonet]

Is there any information on how the man and woman who have been charged are connected yet? I can’t seem to find any. How does a seemingly happily married man end up helping a woman dispose of a body, it’s very strange.
I also don’t understand how no one noticed the smell of a body or the female offender acting suspicious after victim went missing, if they lived in the same hostel.
So many questions about this case.

I'm wondering if the description of the room looking like an abattoir actually means it looked like that under black light rather than visible light? Maybe she had cleaned up the blood to the naked eye and that reduced the smell, with the body's remains being wrapped and placed in well-sealed suitcases?

I'm also curious about the burning, as they've said the remains had signs of being burned, and the people who called police to report suspicious activity also reported a strange burning smell?

 

[gemini20]

Yeah, it would make a lot more sense if it was blood that had already been cleaned up especially if the murder had happened weeks before.
Maybe they tried to burn the suitcase to get rid of any DNA, or burned the torso before putting it in the suitcase, but then why travel there to take it out to burn it to then put it back in? Doesn’t make much sense.

 

[Alyce]

Live blog of the Court Hearing

Updates as woman appears in court charged with murder

 

[Alyce]

Latest from court
A trial date has been set for two people charged following the discovery of human remains in two suitcases.


Gareeca Conita Gordon, 27, is charged with murdering a woman at her home address in Birmingham.


Mahesh Sorathiya, 38, of Wolverhampton, is accused of assisting an offender, namely Gordon.

Neither defendant appeared at Bristol Crown Court where a hearing of the case took place on Tuesday morning.


Mr Justice Garnham set a provisional trial date of November 10.


He said an application to transfer the case to Birmingham Crown Court would be heard at a later stage.


The judge granted conditional bail to Sorathiya. No application for bail was made on behalf of Gordon.

 

[Legally Bland]

Surprised he got bail.

 

[Alyce]

Me too Legally.

 

[Lucy6226]

Wonder if he actually just give her a lift/taxi ride and didn't know her previously or realise what was in the suitcases until it was too late??

 

[Amonet]

Wonder if he actually just give her a lift/taxi ride and didn't know her previously or realise what was in the suitcases until it was too late??

It sounds like they might suspect that's a possibility as he hasn't been charged in conjunction with the actual murder and has bail.

Though I guess more charges might follow for him as they investigate further, and more charges could change the bail situation.

 

[Skigh]

Wonder if he actually just give her a lift/taxi ride and didn't know her previously or realise what was in the suitcases until it was too late??

The suitcases must have smelt awful.
If just a taxi driver,there is no way he would have put them in his car.

 

[Sarahlou]

I think he obviously knew what was in them and that she wanted to dispose of them. I'm quite surprised he got bail too.

 

[Skigh]

I wonder if the police think others are involved and have put him under surveillance in the hope of catching a bigger criminal gang.

 

[madfrank]

Big criminal gangs usually aren't involved with torsos in suitcases involving participants like these. Usually, I say.

 

[Mind your biscuits]

I won't die on this hill, certainly, but the torso by definition is the trunk of the human body. Other usages may occur but are, at best, misguided.

You're correct.
Apologies for my attempt at humour.

I think animals also have torsos. What is the middle part of an elephant called? lol. Moo.

 

[Ellmau]

I think he obviously knew what was in them and that she wanted to dispose of them. I'm quite surprised he got bail too.

Not necessarily - remember the Becky Watts case where various friends of the killers hid bits of body and said they thought it was drugs they were hiding?

 

[gemini20]

The victim has now been named: Updates as woman appears in court charged with murder

 

[Alyce]

A woman whose charred and dismembered body was found in suitcases dumped in a forest was today named as 28-year-old Phoenix Netts.

The young woman was killed at a women's refuge in Birmingham where she had been living for a number of months.

Jamaican national Gareeca Conita Gordon, 27, was remanded on Saturday over the murder.
She had previously been living in north London and went under an assumed name, a source said.

Handyman Mahesh Sorithaya, 38, was described as a 'jack-of-all-trades' handyman by friends who stored tools in two transit vans usually seen outside his five-bed home in Wolverhampton, West Mids.




more at the link .............


First picture of woman found 'chopped in half' and torso dumped in suitcases in Forest of Dean | Daily Mail Online

 

[Tortoise]

A woman whose dismembered body was discovered in suitcases in the Forest of Dean has been named and pictured for the first time.

The body of Phoenix Netts, 28, was found last Tuesday in the West Midlands forest.

[...]
"However, this applicant's (Sorathiya) alleged involvement in these appalling alleged events relates to his transporting of the defendant Gordon to the place where she was stopped and they were arrested.

"There is no suggestion that he was involved in the alleged offence of murder itself."

Conditions of bail include Sorathiya living at his home address, following a curfew between 7pm and 7am, surrendering his travel documents and reporting to his local police station each day.

Woman whose severed body was found in suitcases in Forest of Dean is pictured

 

[Alyce]

Police say they still do not know where she was killed


Woman whose severed body was found in suitcases in Forest of Dean is pictured - Usa Today Post

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

So she may not have been killed at the refuge?