SUMMING up in the 'Murder on the Nile" trial was expected to start at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday).
In the dock is industrial chemist John Allan, who is alleged to have poisoned his girlfriend, solicitor Cheryl Lewis, with cyanide while they were on holiday in the resort of Luxor, in Egypt.
The jury has heard that 43-year-old Miss Lewis died in agony in their hotel room in the New Winter Palace Hotel in October, 1998, after Allan allegedly slipped the drug into her drink.
Mr David Stear, QC, prosecuting has claimed that Allan, who had been courting Miss Lewis for seven years, killed her after forging her will in order to inherit her £460,000 fortune.
Allan, 47, of Woodbank Park, Oxton, has pleaded not guilty to murder and has denied the prosecution allegations.
The prosecution has conceded that the tests for cyanide poisoning on samples from Miss Lewis's body were inconclusive.
The case continues.
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