`Man used lover as bait to lure victim'

From the archive, first published Tuesday 21st Feb 2006.

The man on trial for the "torso on the moors murder" used his lover as bait to lure the victim to his death, a jury heard.

Prosecuting barrister James Goss QC accused Graham Haylett of scheming with his girlfriend Tracey Cameron to kill Leonard Fulbirg and dispose of his body.

The dismembered remains of Mr Fulbirg, 49, were found on Oxenhope Moor in March 1997, seven months after he vanished after leaving his brother's house in Bradford.

The father-of-12 was on his way to meet mother-of-three Tracey Cameron. Cameron, 40, of Dunsford Avenue, Bierley, was in a relationship with Mr Fulbirg for three years. They had a daughter in 1994. But while Mr Fulbirg was in prison awaiting trial Cameron began an affair with his friend Graham Haylett. Mr Goss alleges that Cameron and Haylett lured Mr Fulbirg to his death because he was an obstacle to their new relationship.

Both Cameron and Haylett, 40, of Wilson Wood Street, Batley, deny murdering Mr Fulbirg. Cameron agrees that she met him in Keighley on August 8, 1996 and that she arranged another meeting with him three days later at McDonalds in Rooley Lane, Bradford, but she says she never turned up.

Yesterday during cross-examination at Leeds Crown Court, Mr Goss told Haylett there was "damning evidence" against him from Patricia Hughes and Carrie Webster whom he had had relationships with. The women have both given police statements saying Haylett told them he had killed a man and the man he had killed could obviously be connected to Leonard Fulbirg.

Mr Goss said to Haylett that he went to Cameron's house in Hyne Avenue only after August 11, 1996, because by then he knew perfectly well that Leonard Fulbirg was not around anymore. Mr Goss suggested to Haylett that Cameron was used as bait to get Mr Fulbirg to McDonalds and then to kill him. "However it was done, wherever it was done, you were in on it, as was Tracey. He was chopped up and you dumped bits when you went out up on the moor above Oxenhope. Did you dump the other bits somewhere else? Was he fed to the pigs, or were parts of him fed to the pigs?" Mr Goss asked.

Haylett replied: "I've no idea."

Mr Goss accused him of making up a story that travellers had told him Mr Fulbirg had been "seen to".

"And you thought you'd got away with it, didn't you?" he asked Haylett.

Mr Goss added: "You and Tracey Cameron did kill Leonard Fulbirg, didn't you?"

Haylett replied: "No sir, we didn't."

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