Accused ‘body in a bin’ killer of Yajaira Mendez denies murder

A cleaner accused of killing his ex-girlfriend at the offices where they worked and wheeling her corpse out in a bin has denied murder. Married Venezuelan Juan Toledo, 51, drove the body of Colombian Yajaira Mendez, 46, to the Bolderwood area of Hampshire and dumped it there, it is claimed. Prosecutor Caroline Carberry, KC, told the Old Bailey: ‘They were both cleaning staff at an office building on Grays Inn Road. ‘They had been in recent relationship and on the…

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