‘What we have here,’ Erika Berger the Home Office Pathologist said as she examined the remains of PC Jack Hobson, all the bodily parts placed in their correct alignment. ‘Is the dismembered body of a thirty-four-year-old male identified as John Hobson, a police officer with the South Yorkshire Police in West Garside.’ As she said that, she quickly crossed herself.
‘The body has been cut into eight parts, the torso, the upper legs from knee to hip, two lower legs severed at the knees, two lower arms severed at the elbow, and the head severed between the cervical vertebrae C3 and C4. From the precision of the amputations and the absence of apparent repeated cuts by handsaw, I consider that the body was dismembered with a chainsaw.’
Emma, attending the post-mortem along with Grace, gasped w
