Jury deliberating on father and daughter accused of dumping sex workers body in West Bromwich canal
The jury will take as much time as they need to consider the route to verdict in the alleged murder case
The jury is deliberating in the case of a father and daughter accused of dumping the body of a sex worker in a West Bromwich canal.
Thirty-six-year-old Chereisse Bailey, of Tipton, was found in the Walsall Canal off Ryders Green Road in West Bromwich on October 7 last year. The occasional sex worker was last seen alive 10 days earlier.
The trial is being held at Birmingham Crown Court which heard that 65-year-old John Anslow was responsible for killing her in a violent attack after engaging her services at his home, in Stour Street, Greets Green. His daughter 42-year-old Hayley-Marie Ferguson, of Heronville Road also West Bromwich, is accused of helping to wheel Miss Bailey’s corpse to the towpath before tipping her in.
Anslow, a wheelchair user, denies murdering Miss Bailey who had been strangled, had facial fractures and bruises, and was likely to have been bitten. He has pleaded guilty to a charge of preventing a lawful and decent burial.
Ferguson is not standing trial for murder and has pleaded not guilty to a charge of preventing a lawful and decent burial, and not guilty to a charge of assisting an offender.
The trial continues.