A 47-YEAR-OLD woman was due to stand trial today charged with murdering a Scandinavian woman last October.

Patricia Mulpeter, from London, was due to appear before Plymouth Crown Court charged with killing Kaija Savolainen in Tavistock on October 7.

The body of the Finnish woman was found in a Vauxhall Astra parked in the car park of the town's police station. Mulpeter has pleaded not guilty to murder.