'Decapitated' drug user, 49, whose chopped up body parts were found scattered ... trends now
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The first image has emerged of a man who was killed before being dismembered and his remains strewn across a seaside town.
Simon Shotton was allegedly murdered by Benjamin Atkins, 49, and Debbie Pereira, 39, during a row in a flat in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset.
They are on trial at Winchester Crown Court.
Security footage captured the couple the next day, strolling to a Wilko store where it is alleged that they stole a hacksaw, later used to dismember Mr Shotton's body.
His severed legs were found in bags at Boscombe overcliff's Manor Steps Zig Zag path a week later.
Meanwhile, the 49-year-old's headless torso was discovered in a suitcase in Boscombe Chine Gardens, and his arms were retrieved from the defendants' residence, the Court heard.
Mr Shotton was living with Pereira and Atkins in exchange for drugs in the two weeks before his death
CCTV footage captured the couple along Christchurch Road in Boscombe, with Atkins carrying what the prosecution claims to be the stolen hacksaw
Fragments of his skull were even located in Walpole Lane.
Details emerged in Winchester Crown Court that Mr Shotton had been staying with Atkins and Pereira last August when a
