A jury was today due to begin hearing evidence in the trial of a couple accused of murdering a man whose dismembered corpse was found on moorland.

Lennie Fulbirg, 49, disappeared in August 1996. His headless, limbless body was found the following March near Oxenhope.

Tracey Cameron, 40, of Dunsford Avenue, Bierley, Bradford, and Graham Haylett, also 40, of Wilson Wood Street, Batley, deny murdering Mr Fulbirg between August 10, 1996 and March 3, 1997.

Haylett also pleads not guilty to perverting the course of public justice. He is accused of communicating with a prosecution witness in an attempt to persuade her to alter her statement between April 14 and July 15 last year.

The jury of six men and six women were told by the trial judge, Mrs Justice Cox, that the case was set to last six weeks.

The jurors were selected from a group of people who were asked by the judge if they had ever lived on Bradford's Bierley estate.

Junior prosecution counsel Peter Moulson then read the potential jurors a list of about 100 witnesses to see if they knew any of them.

The names called out included archaeologists, an anthropologist, forensic scientists, a botanical specialist and police officers.

The panel was also asked if they knew either Mr Fulbirg or his brother, Robert.

Mrs Justice Cox told the jury that leading counsel for the prosecution James Goss QC would open the case today.

The trial had been postponed last month because one of the defendants, Cameron, was ill with shingles.

Mr Fulbirg's torso found in a lay-by on the A6033 Hebden Bridge Road above Oxenhope in March 1997.

The four-times married father of 32 children had disappeared on August 11, 1996.

It took police several years to establish the identity of the body.

In 2004, police carried out a major search of Oxenhope Moor in a bid to find the missing skull and limbs but nothing was found.

Mr Fulbirg often undertook casual work buying and selling horses, jewellery and other goods and was described by police as a real-life 'Del Boy'.