A 16-year-old girl was
lured to a hotel on the bogus promise of a cleaning job before being stabbed 58
times and sexually assaulted, a court heard.
College student Sasha
Marsden's body was then set on fire and dumped in an alleyway after she had
been killed, a jury was told.
The teenager suffered 'terrible and catastrophic' injuries as she was stabbed 58 times to the
head, neck and face with a kitchen knife. She 'struggled
ferociously' in a vain attempt to fend off her 'sexually motivated' murderer
David Minto, 23, in Blackpool, Lancashire, the court heard.
Police who found her body
thought a mannequin had been set on fire because she had suffered such severe
injuries, it was said. Her injuries were so bad
that she could only be identified by DNA from her toothbrush, Preston Crown
Court heard.
