A FORENSIC scientist has told a jury bloodstains found on clothing taken from a Dudley hostel matched the DNA of teenager Megan Bills who 24-year-old Ashley Foster is accused of strangling during a sick sex game.

Foster is alleged to have killed 17-year-old Megan, from Stourbridge, before stashing her body in a wardrobe he then sealed up with clingfilm.

Scientist Leanne Spencer revealed bloodstains found on a pair of tartan trousers taken from Foster's room in the hostel carried bloodstains from the teenager.

She told a jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court that bloodstains found of a torn shirt stuffed into a dustbin outside the Highgate Road hostel also matched that of the teenager.

The body of Megan was discovered in the wardrobe two-and-a-half weeks after she went missing when staff in the hostel went to investigate a "revolting" smell coming from the room.

Crispin Aylett QC, prosecuting, read a statement from Claire Mills, a support worker at the hostel, in which she described the smell as "horrible."

In her statement she told police: "It was a strong smell - a dirty maggot smell" adding that Foster went into the office and the smell clung to his clothes.

She claimed Foster wanted to be on the scene when his room in the hostel was examined. Then, when staff entered, they found the wardrobe had been moved nearer to the window and a blanket had been thrown over the wardrobe.

Foster then told the support worker he was airing the blanket because something had been spilled on it, the court was told.

Mr Aylett also read out a statement from a young woman in which she described how Foster, of no fixed address, had continually made sexual comments to her.

She said she found things extremely uncomfortable – adding: "I got feisty with him but he said 'I like feisty women - especially in the bedroom’.”

The prosecution have claimed that what may have begun between Foster and Miss Bills as consensual sex ended in a violent attack Her death must have been related to some perverted sexual activity on his part and after she died he scoured the internet looking for "snuff" movies which involved death or simulated death during sexual activity.

Foster, who had been released from a prison sentence just days before Miss Bills died, has maintained she told him she liked to be strangled during sex and what happened was an accident.

He has admitted preventing the lawful and decent burial of the teenager, whose body was left to rot in the wardrobe, but denied murder and his trial is continuing.

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