CCTV CAPTURES MUM BEEN STALKED BEFORE HER MURDER

Disturbing CCTV footage allegedly shows a homeless man following a mother before she was raped and murdered.Pardeep Kaur 30,was walking to the hotel where she worked as a housekeeper at around 6.30am on October 17 last year, a court heard.

A week later, her body was found hidden in a bush near the scene. Her jeans and underwear had been thrown into a puddle nearby.Her husband reported her missing when she didn’t return home after work that evening.

Vadims Ruskuls, 25, has been accused of killing Mrs Kaur, but he denies all charges against him.Jurors at Ruskuls’ murder trial were played a CCTV clip, which prosecutors said showed Kaur’s final moments.

A stooped man, believed to be Ruskuls, is seen following her as she walked towards a ramp up to an M4 bridge in Hayes, West London.

At 6.33am, the two disappeared from view behind a bush and, 25 minutes later, an indistinct figure was caught on camera dragging her body back down the path and behind a pillar under the bridge.Ruskuls had been sleeping rough beneath the bridge that night.

Mrs Kaur had scratched her attacker as she fought for her life, but her screams would have been drowned out by the noise of the motorway, according to prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC.

Mr Aylett questioned PC Victoria Wellsted, who presented the footage, on the identity of the person in the footage.

He asked: ‘In this footage we see what appeared to be a figure dragging a body down the ramp way. Are you able to say from the CCTV that it is the same person?’

Ruskuls was allegedly caught after a police officer recognised the suspect on the CCTV as a man when he had spoken to the day after the murder.PC Wellstead said nobody else went up the ramp, but because the film quality was so poor, it wasn’t possible to tell if it was a man or woman.The constable had been called to a house nearby to a report of a ‘stoned’ man trying to open the front door.

Ruskuls was found walking barefoot with scratches on his face, a court heard.Jurors were told how Ruskuls’ DNA was later found on Mrs Kaur’s body and clothes.The trial continues.