Murdered teen ‘cut up’

GRUESOME details about the murder of Cranbourne teenager Gary Adams were revealed on Monday in the Supreme Court.
Seventeen-year-old Gary Adams went missing on 5 December 2003 and his mother’s former partner John Xypolitos has since been charged with his murder.
According to reports from Metropolitan Newspaper The Age, a Supreme Court heard that the Mr Xypolitos had ‘cut up’ Gary’s body with a hacksaw.
Mr Xypolitos was living with former partner Jo-Ann at a property in Cranbourne at the time that Gary went missing.
Mr Xypolitos has not guilty to Gary’s murder and says he acted in self-defence after the teen tried to attack him with a screwdriver.
Crown prosecutor Andrew Tinney, SC, asked the jury on Monday how an act that seems to have been so thought through could have been an act of self-defence.
The prosecution says that after Mr Xypolitos killed Gary, he disposed of his body in a small plastic children’s swimming pool in a large shed in the family’s backyard.
Mr Tinney said Mr Xypolitos actions would suggest “that that’s behaviour of extraordinary coldness and calculation”.
Mr Tinney told the court that the accused disposed of his defacto step-son’s body parts throughout Melbourne, and was not arrested and charged until April last year.
The trail continues.