Manchester - A middle-aged man who gouged out the eyes of his teenage girlfriend and then drowned her in her bath confessed to police that "he had done her in", a jury was told yesterday. Manchester Crown Court heard that Mr Peter Smith (49) had inflicted 150 wounds on Ms Kelly-Anne Bates (17) during a period of systematic torture lasting up to a month last year.
Mr Peter Openshaw QC, prosecuting, said Mr Smith, who pleaded not guilty, had kept Ms Bates prisoner in rooms with no carpets and sparse furniture at his semi-detached home in Gorton, Manchester.
