Scottish prosecutors allege Pacteau strangled Karen
Tragic Karen Buckley was attacked with a spanner and strangled by the man accused of murdering her, prosecutors claim.
Alexander Pacteau, 21, is accused of then covering her body in "corrosive substances" and putting her in a barrel.
The allegations emerged as Pacteau appeared in the dock at a private court appearance yesterday for the first time to answer the charges.
Pacteau, from Glasgow’s west end, made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody by sheriff Charles McFarlane QC.
He will appear again next week for a full committal hearing.
Papers from the court claim that on April 12 at his Dorchester Avenue flat and elsewhere, he repeatedly hit her on the head with a spanner, or similar object.
The murder charge also reads that Pacteau "compressed her neck".
Pacteau faces a second charge that between April 12 and 13 at his west-end flat and at High Craigton Farm, Drymen, knowing he had killed Karen Buckley, he covered her body in "corrosive substances".
Prosecutors claim Pacteau put her body in a plastic barrel and hid it in a storage shed
Karen Buckley, a qualified nurse, went missing following a night out at the Sanctuary nightclub in Glasgow's West End on April 11.
Her body was later found by police at a farm to the north of the city.
A candlelit vigil was held at Glasgow's George Square last night in memory of Miss Buckley, who was from Mourneabbey, Co Cork.
