A MAN murdered his “soulmate” and stashed her dismembered body in a freezer with her guinea pigs for three years, a court heard.
George Gordon, 65, allegedly killed artist Delia McInerney days before she was going to move to with her beloved for a “new life”.
The court heard he then went to The Sefton Pub for breakfast, accompanied by a pint of Strongbow and a double whisky, before ordering a chest freezer from .
He drowned her five guinea pigs and dismembered her body, stashing them all in the chest freezer at his home, the court was told.
As he was arrested three years later, he told officers “she’s in there” and added “she’s in the freezer”, directing them to find her body.
Martin Reid KC, prosecuting, said Gordon bought items including a sledgehammer, a handsaw and surgical handbook Gray’s Anatomy after hearing that she was moving in April 2023.
The items were “consistent with those that would later be used, or required, to kill and dismember Ms McInerney”, Mr Reid said.
He also collected prescriptions for medications later found in her system, the court was told.
On April 11, Gordon took a video of Delia, 62, with her guinea pigs which was to be the last footage in which she was seen alive.
Mr Reid said: “These, the Crown says, are the same five guinea pigs that Ms McInerney was planning to take to Portugal just two days later, and of which she was so fond.
“They were, the prosecution says, to meet the same fate as their owner Ms McInerney.”
Examinations of the guinea pigs showed they died by drowning, the jury heard.
Gordon, who was known as Chris to his victim and their friends, is accused of murdering his friend on the evening of April 11 or in the early hours of April 12.
Mr Reid said after her death, Gordon posed as his alleged victim in messages and emails to her friends for 18 months – while raiding her accounts for money.
He told the jury: “Unbeknown to them, but known very well to the defendant, Delia McInerney had died in April 2023, at the defendant’s hands.
“Her dismembered body was found in a chest freezer in the defendant’s flat on January 8 this year.
“In the meantime, the defendant fraudulently obtained thousands of pounds from her bank accounts, and obtained a loan and in her name.”
On April 12, more than £2,000 was sent from her bank accounts to Gordon, the jury was told.
Mr Reid said Gordon, who travelled to Portugal on April 24 and visited the property Delia owned there, posed as his victim in messages to her friends and neighbours.
He told some of her friends she had been ill.
Others were told she had gone to the King’s coronation in May 2023 with Gordon, where she claimed they had met Dame and Sir in Westminster Abbey.
Mr Reid said: “This ridiculous account would almost be amusing were it not for the knowledge that all this time, rather than meeting famous actors at the King’s coronation, Ms McInerney’s body was lying in a chest freezer in the defendant’s flat in .”
Gordon’s “web of lies” began to unravel in December 2025, the court heard.
Someone called Chris Cavendish-Gordon, who claimed to be a social worker, asked the Department of Work and for her (PIP) to be transferred to a different account.
The jury was told after telephone inquiries and financial checks, staff raised concerns for her welfare.
Neighbours had reported an “awful” smell coming from his home, where Delia – who had concerns about 5G masts by her own house – would sometimes stay.
Gordon, who had gone to a local chippy and told staff “the b***h is dead”, was arrested at his flat on January 8.
As he was escorted out of his home in St Helens, he told officers “she’s in there” and added “she’s in the freezer”.
Gordon admits killing her but initially told 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, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Gordon denies murder and causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
