New photo Midwife Samantha Eastwood's killer laid 'false trail' after murder

The killer of a murdered midwife left her engagement ring and wedding dress on her bed to lay a 'false trail' for detectives, a court has heard.

Married Michael Stirling had an affair with Samantha Eastwood, who had been due to marry his wife's brother.

He then killed Ms Eastwood and dumped her body in a shallow grave on the edge of the Staffordshire Moorland.

Stirling's sentencing hearing this morning heard that he had laid out items to do with her cancelled wedding on her bed to make it look like she was depressed and had 'gone away'. 

He then texted her sister, saying: 'Please leave me alone x', which prosecutors said were meant to suggest she was having some kind of breakdown.

Michael Stirling murdered Samantha Eastwood, the former fiancee of his wife's brother, after they had an affair

Ms Eastwood had been due to marry her killer's brother-in-law, John Peake. The two couple's are pictured together

Stirling's wife Katie is the sister of the man Miss Eastwood had been due to marry this summer, John Peake.

The two couples regularly socialised together and were pictured together at the wedding of one of Mr Peake's relatives. 

But Miss Eastwood suddenly called off the engagement in January, leaving friends baffled as to what had gone wrong between the pair. 

Stirling, a fencer and landscape gardener, had been in a 'long-standing but not particularly intense' affair with Miss Eastwood, his barrister has previously said.

Describing the murder at a previous court hearing, Stirling's lawyer said:  'On the afternoon of the killing, various things were said between the defendant and Samantha Eastwood which led to him becoming very angry.

'There was an argument... After a struggle, and while she was on the floor, he put his hands over her throat, her mouth and nose. As a result of that she died.' 

The barrister added: 'During his intense rage, he originally intended to cause her really serious bodily harm, but matters escalated and he carried out the intention to kill her.

'He panicked afterwards and buried her in an area of which he had some knowledge.'

Miss Eastwood's body was found in a disused quarry at Caverswall on the edge of the Staffordshire Moorlands, eight days after she was last seen driving out of the Royal Stoke University Hospital. 

Her face and eyes had been bound with masking tape and her body wrapped in a duvet in the shallow grave eight miles from her home in Baddeley Green, Stoke-on-Trent.

 

 

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News Pictures Midwife Samantha Eastwood's killer laid 'false trail' after murder

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