The body of a newlywed wife was found dumped in a suitcase near her home after her husband reported her missing.
Dawn Walker, 52, was found dead by police and paramedics close to her home in Halifax, West Yorkshire, on Halloween.
Her husband, scrap man Thomas Nutt, 45, had initially reported Dawn missing on the same day, an inquest into her death at Bradford Coroners court heard today.
Nutt, 45, of Lightcliffe, near Brighouse, West Yorkshire was arrested after the discovery.
Nutt admitted killing Ms Walker but 'he did not intend to kill her or cause her really serious harm'.
Dawn Walker, left, married Thomas Nutt, right, four days before her body was found in a suitcase in West Yorkshire on October 31
Nutt is charged with murdering Ms Walker some time between October 27 - the day they were married - and October 31, when her body was found in a suitcase
Ms Walker pictured as a younger woman. Her new husband reported her missing before police and paramedics found her body in a suitcase
He had told police that Dawn had left their house at 9.30am on Sunday, October 31, with plans to meet her daughter but that she had failed to turn up.
The inquest was told that after a call at 4.38pm that
