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Woman cleared of gruesome murder

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A woman has been found not guilty of murdering her partner and dismembering the body.

Tara Swift (41), of West Street, Leicester, appeared at Nottingham Crown Court accused of killing Kevin Kennedy with her ex-partner Peter Healy.

Healy (52), of Lord Nelson Street, in Sneinton, Nottingham, was found guilty of the gruesome murder and will be sentenced on Monday.

Swift was cleared of murder, but convicted of perverting the course of justice.

Mr Kennedy's dismembered remains were discovered in a shallow grave in Sneinton on August 8 last year.

His head and arms are still missing.

After the unanimous verdicts were delivered, prosecutor Timothy Spencer QC told the judge the case had caused acute distress to Mr Kennedy's family – particularly because parts of his body have not been found.

There was hope the court proceedings could shed light on where the missing parts were, but Mr Spencer said: "That hope has been dashed. They will never know."

Afterwards, Chief Inspector Rob Griffin told how officers had gone to great lengths in the search for 50-year-old Mr Kennedy.

A fingertip search of a landfill site in Newark took six weeks and turned up nothing.

Locations near to the shallow grave where Mr Kennedy was found were examined, but all efforts were in vain.

"The only person that knows where the missing body parts are is Peter Healy, and unless he tells us they will never be found," said Ch Insp Griffin. "It is a particularly distressing case for the family."

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