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Camden News - by DAN CARRIER
Published: 20 November 2008

Murder trial told of OAP’s blood-splattered room

BLOOD was “splashed” across a room in which the body of Hampstead pensioner Allan Chappelow was found, an Old Bailey jury has heard.
Internet entrepreneur Wang Yam, 47, is accused of the murder of Mr Chappelow in his Downshire Hill home in the summer of 2006, and attempting to steal funds from the wealthy recluse’s bank accounts. He denies the charges.
This week, the prosecution called Dr Alan Allday, a forensic scientist working for the Metropolitan Police. He said he and a colleague scoured 86-year-old Mr Chappelow’s home. He revealed he had found smears of the pensioner’s blood on the inside of the front door, and the room in which the body was discovered was covered in “thousands of drops” of his blood, which had come from a head wound Mr Chappelow had suffered.
Dr Allday said that he had been asked by detectives to search the home of the accused in nearby Denning Road. He said he had failed to find any traces of the victim’s blood in the flat. But when questioned by prosecution QC Mark Ellison, he said the lack of blood in the flat linking the accused to the crime scene meant little.
Police sergeant Andy Docherty, a member of a specialist search team called in to go through Mr Chappelow’s rubbish-strewn home, told the jury that before they could access the room in which Mr Chappelow’s body was found, they had to clear a path through accumulated debris.
The trial continues.

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