Killer ‘may have used medical knowledge’

THE killer who plunged a knife 21 times into a young woman may have used his anatomical knowledge to inflict the wounds, State pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy told a murder trial yesterday.

The multiple stab wounds in the head, face, chest, back and shoulder penetrated Georgina Eager’s heart, lung, windpipe, carotid artery and jugular vein.

Her lover, homoeopathic doctor Christopher Newman, aged 62, denies murder but admits manslaughter on the basis he acted in self- defence.