A mother-of-three accused of luring her lover to his death had been sleeping with his brother, a murder trial jury heard.
Tracey Cameron had an affair with Robert Fulbirg the year before her boyfriend, Leonard, disappeared, the Court was told.
Cameron, 40, of Dunsford Avenue, Bierley, Bradford, denies murdering Leonard Fulbirg between August 10, 1996, and March 3, 1997. With her in the dock at Leeds Crown Court is Graham Haylett, 40, of Wilson Wood Street, Batley, who also denies murder.
The court has heard that Mr Fulbirg vanished overnight from his brother Robert's home in Coldbeck Drive, Buttershaw, on Sunday, August 11, 1996.
His dismembered remains were found high on Oxenhope Moor above Keighley on March 2, 1997. The prosecution allege Cameron and Haylett lured Mr Fulbirg to his death because he was an obstacle to their relationship.
Robert Fulbirg, 57, told the jury yesterday that Lennie had arranged to meet Cameron at McDonalds in Rooley Lane, Bradford, on the night he disappeared.
Mr Fulbirg said that after his brother was released from prison remand on August 1, 1996, he was in almost daily touch with Cameron.
He said the Sunday date was fixed for 7.30pm and Lennie asked him how long it would take him to walk to Rooley Lane.
"He asked me for some money and I gave him a fiver, then he said 'I'm off' and he went and I haven't seen him since," Mr Fulbirg said.
He said his brother left his dog behind and all his personal possessions. No-one from the family heard from him again.
Cross-examined by Guy Kearl QC for Cameron, Mr Fulbirg admitted that he had a sexual relationship with her in 1995 while Leonard was in Bridlington.
"It wasn't a love affair. It was just sex," Mr Fulbirg said. He said the affair ended at the end of 1995.
Mr Kearl suggested to Mr Fulbirg that he cooked up a story to implicate Cameron in his brother's disappearance because he was angry that she had spurned him. But Mr Fulbirg said his relationship with Tracey ended amicably. "There was no animosity at all. It just started and finished," he said.
Mr Fulbirg admitted he had previous convictions for burglary, conspiracy to rob, benefit fraud, handling stolen goods and indecent assault of a six-year-old girl in 1980.
Mr Fulbirg, a father of five who is paralysed from the waist down and suffers from chronic lung disorder, said Lennie had received threats after he was released from prison on August 1, 1996.
He said he thought they concerned an allegation that Lennie had indecently assaulted a girl in Keighley.
The trial continues.
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