Tears of ‘body in bag’ killer Andrew Lindo

Andrew Lindo, 29, made the comment during an “urgent” interview with police officers investigating the disappearance of his partner Marie Stewart.

Detectives had arrested Lindo and were interviewing him at Huddersfield Police Station on February 13.

Officers had found blood-stained items at his home in Holmfirth and decided to carry out the brief interview to try to obtain information which could possibly lead them to Miss Stewart.

Her body was later discovered in a suitcase in the couple’s garage.

During the interview, which was played to a jury, at Bradford Crown Court, Lindo was asked if he had seen his fiancee.

He replied: “No”

He then added: “Not really bothered.... because she has left me for somebody else and the children, that’s not very forgivable.”

A second interview, conducted a day later and which was also played to the jury, Lindo broke down in tears as he told the officers how his relationship with Miss Stewart had deteriorated.

He told the officers that they had “not really been a couple for quite some time.”

He said since the birth of his son, he had slept on a sofa bed in the front room.

“We were basically living in the same house but not really together,” he told the officers.

He told the officers Miss Stewart became “insular and suspicious” and insulted him verbally.

He said his family pointed out that her behaviour was unacceptable.

“She was just so rude, so demeaning towards me. The way she talked to me was so belittling,” the jury heard.

The jury has heard Lindo put the body of Miss Stewart - the mother of his two children - into a flight bag and put it in his garage.

It was not found for several weeks during which time Lindo allegedly used 30-year-old Miss Stewart’s Facebook profile and mobile phone to convince her family and friends she had deserted her young son and daughter and was with a new man.

It was alleged Lindo was living a double life with another woman and was planning a future with her.

Lindo has admitted manslaughter but denies murdering his partner on December 18 last year, at their home in Holmfirth.