BBC News - Ffion Wyn Roberts 'strangled and drowned' in Porthmadog

2 March 2011 Last updated at 13:32

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Ffion Wyn Roberts 'strangled and drowned' in Porthmadog

Ffion Wyn Roberts was strangled with her own scarf, the court was told

A 22-year-old woman was violently murdered as she walked home in the early hours, a jury has heard.

Ffion Wyn Roberts was assaulted, strangled and drowned in a drainage ditch in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Caernarfon Crown Court was told.

Iestyn Davies, 53, a factory worker from Porthmadog, denies murder.

The care home worker's body was discovered in the ditch on 10 April last year. The trial continues.

Elwen Evans QC, prosecuting, said Miss Roberts had been out for the evening on Friday 9 April, 2010.

She ended up in the village of Tremadog about a mile away from where she lived and in the early hours of 10 April she set off to walk home.

She was last seen at 0427 BST on CCTV as she turned off the main street in Porthmadog into a side road.

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Miss Roberts' body was found in a disused drainage ditch

The court heard that at some point in the next 40 minutes she was assaulted in an alleyway.

Ms Evans said: "There were no eye-witnesses but the police have done a detailed investigation and we say the person responsible was Iestyn Davies.

"Some lines of enquiries have been carefully considered and discounted, others have led to this defendant."

The court heard that Miss Roberts's head was hit against something so hard that she may have lost consciousness and her scarf was used to strangle her and part of the scarf was stuffed in her mouth to gag her before she was dragged across rough ground and dumped in a drainage ditch.

The attack was so violent that her clothes were torn and the defendant's DNA was found on her ripped T-shirt, the jury were told.

via bbc.co.uk