Accused ‘Body in the Loft’ killer denies murder

A woman sobbed at the Old Bailey as she denied hiding the body of a man in a loft for eight months after she murdered him. Bespectacled Stacey Docharty, 28, and Gary Hopkins, 36, killed Abdi Ali, 18, in a top-floor flat in Enfield, north London, on December 21 last year, it is claimed. The victim’s body then lay undiscovered in the loft until police received a tip-off. Docharty denied murder, perverting the course of justice by ‘hiding the body…