A MAN accused of murdering his friend and storing her body in a freezer spent years telling neighbours she was living abroad - and told one she'd had his baby and was expecting another child, a court heard.
Liverpool Crown Court has heard George Gordon, 65, regularly spoke about Delia McInerney after her apparent disappearance, claiming she was living in Portugal and later suggested to a neighbour the pair had a child together.
The trial of George Gordon, accused of the murder of Delia McInerney, started last week.
Gordon allegedly killed his friend Delia McInerney in April 2023, days before she was due to move to Portugal for a “new life”, the jury of five men and seven women was told as the prosecution opened its case.
The court heard Ms McInerney, who was 62 at the time of her death, stayed with Gordon at his flat at Gerards Court, in Carr Mill, when she was not travelling abroad or at her house in Anfield, Liverpool, as she had concerns about 5G masts.
Martin Reid KC, prosecuting, told the jury last week Ms McInerney’s body was found by police in a chest freezer at Gordon’s flat on January 8 this year.
It was alleged Gordon had kept her dismembered body in a freezer with her pet guinea pigs for almost three years while he took out credit cards and loans in her name.
The prosecution said in its opening that Gordon admits killing Ms McInerney, but initially told police he had hit her with a hammer to “end her suffering” after she had taken an overdose.
He now claims he acted in self-defence, Mr Reid said.
During proceedings, junior prosecution counsel Katy Appleton read a statement to the court last Thursday, from Taylor Johnson, a neighbour of Gordon's on Gerards Court.
In this, she said the defendant was known as "Mr Parcel" as he often took in packages for the residents.
In her statement, she recalled an occasion on a bus ride on December 30, 2025.
Ms Johnson said: "Mr Parcel was sat in front of me, chatting, asking me how my baby was, and he gave me £20 for his birthday.
"He told me he and Delia had not long had a baby. I thought this was odd, as I never knew they were a couple. He said the baby was one and she was pregnant with another. She carried his baby and had her eggs frozen."
Ms Johnson's statement “He always walked with a stick, he appears to get breathless and would stop to catch his breath.
"He was always friendly and chatty. He told us he had a property in Portugal and Delia was living there. He would tell us had properties in other places, he said he had houses in Liverpool."
Ms Johnson said that Ms McInerney would sit in the garden “with her rabbit and guinea pigs. She was always sat on her own, never with ‘Mr Parcel’.
Gordon, denies charges of murder and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
The trial, before Mr Justice Goose, will continue tomorrow, Wednesday, and is expected to last for around six weeks.
The case continues
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