A judge has ordered a Belfast man to stand trial accused of beating his partner to death last May.

Jamie Love, 24, is charged with murdering Kathryn Parton. Her body lay undiscovered at their home in the east of the city for 6 days.

His mother, Suzanne Love, and a third defendant, Reece Oliver, will also face prosecution for allegedly helping him flee the scene after the killing.

At Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Friday, the three accused were told they each have a case to answer at trial.

Ms Parton’s body was found in the blood-stained bedroom of the house at Madrid Street in May last year.

Post-mortem examinations established that the 34-year-old, known as Kat, died from haemorrhaging, lacerations to the scalp and nasal fractures following a sustained assault to the head which involv

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