Dad accused of two murders ‘paid victim £3,000 to take pictures of her tied up in car boot’
A DOUBLE killer paid one of his victims £3,000 to take pictures of her tied up in a car boot, a court heard on Monday.
Builder Mark Brown, 41, paid the sum to mum-of-three Leah Ware, 33, for two photoshoots, jurors were told.
He is said to have taken the snaps at his rented site Little Bridge Farm - where he also allegedly murdered mum-of-two Alex Morgan, 34, then burnt her body in an oil drum.
Brown, of St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, denies two counts of murder.
Dad-of-one Brown was in a relationship with Leah despite also having a long-term partner.
Leah was living in a shipping container in a barn on the farm in Hastings, East Sussex, and went missing last May - and her body has never been found.
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Her pal Tara Casey told Hove crown court on Monday that Leah was “scared” of Brown and tried to get away from him after the shoots.
She said: “They were to be taken at the farm either in his car or another car, in the boot.
“She was to be dressed provocatively in lingerie and so forth and tied up.
“He was going to tie her up and I believe he was paying her £3,000.”
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Ms Casey said Brown demanded a second set of snaps - in which he gagged Leah - because the first ones “were not good enough”.
Brown met both Alex and Leah on a website through their work as escorts.
Alex was identified by teeth and bone fragments found in an oil drum said to have been dumped by Brown at a building site he worked at last November.
The trial continues.
