Cathy Marlow Jury Hears Details of Struggle

In London, the jury in the Cathy Marlow murder case has heard harrowing details of how the Research Now Finance Manager died.

Pathologist Professor Peter Jeered said Marlow was struck over the head with a metal object before she died, and that her injuries showed that she had struggled as she was strangled from behind by her own scarf. Finger marks on her neck suggested that she had tried to remove the scarf as her attacker tightened it.

He told the Old Bailey that injuries to her head appeared to have been caused by a light hammer. 'There were injuries to the skull and hands that were caused by a blunt instrument. In my opinion these injuries occurred before compression of the neck.'

The professor gave her cause of death as asphyxia due to a ligature compression to the neck.

Marlow was attacked when she went into the office to catch up with work at over the weekend in January 2007.

American national Matthew Fagan, who had been sacked from the company nine months before the murder, is alleged to have killed Marlow after returning to the office to steal computers. He has denied murder, but admitted to stealing six laptop computers from the office on the day of the killing.

The trial continues.

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