Overview

• Prosecutors said CCTV from a convenience store on Chorley Old Road captured Barlow buying Borocz a drink on December 14 and walking with her toward his Pedder Street home.
• Police discovered Borocz’s naked body in Barlow’s locked shed on December 23 after finding the padlock key on the defendant’s key ring.
• Forensic analysis detected Barlow’s DNA on Borocz’s body and her DNA on a sock recovered from his home.
• A pathologist’s report listed asphyxia, hypothermia and deprivation of food and water as possible causes, but concluded the overall cause of death was unascertained.
• Barlow denies charges of murder and manslaughter and has challenged the prosecution’s narrative by disputing his alibis for work attendance and self-isolation.