The jury in a murder trial where a woman was killed in Peru have been showed images of where she was found.

Jorge Garay, from Dartford, is accused of strangling Karla Godoy, from the same town, with a wire and burying her body four-and-a-half kilometres from where the couple were staying.

Now, images of the scene and where Garay was staying with his mother have been shown to jurors after officers from the county travelled 6,000 miles to investigate the disappearance of the 37-year-old mother.

Garay, 47, is currently on trial at Maidstone Crown Court after Godoy’s body was found wrapped in blue plastic sheeting.

The court heard was also shown one of the last messages she sent to one her aunts during her trip to Peru in September last year

She wrote to her aunt: “Thank you Auntie. I’ll see you there. I’m coming back on the weekend and will stay there for three days in Valencia.”

Later she sent her aunt a kissing emoji, which was the last message she is known to have made, Detective Constable Jeff Brunger told the jury.

He said Karla was due to fly from Lima to Madrid on September 23 but she never caught the flight.

Karla and Garay, who denies murder, had visited Machu Picchu in the south east of Peru and had sent a photograph to her 10-year-old daughter, who is living with her father in Spain.

Karla, who was born in Honduras, moved to Spain where she had a child before coming to the UK on November 29, 2020.

The court heard how she ended up working for FM Cleaning where she met Garay and they both worked in Dartford after starting a relationship.

They moved to a house in Hythe Street in October and the couple booked a Ryanair flights to Lima, via Valencia, the following year.

The pair stayed in the four-star Hotel Turia on September 13 before flying to Madrid and then onto Lima.

The couple then visited Garay’s mother in Santa Ana before traveling to Cusco to visit Machu Picchu.

After Karla was reported missing, police began looking for Garay and he was later arrested in London.

The court heard how police in Peru began searching and her body was found more than four kilometres from Santa Ana.

The jury heard how Garay had shown signs of jealousy when the couple worked at a Dartford company.

His boss Emmanuel Omoigberai told the jury Garay didn’t like Karla talking to any other man at the company.

Initially the two worked different shifts at FM Cleaning but Mr Omoigberai put the two together because of his jealousy.

“On one occasion he came asking where Karla was and then went upstairs. She then came downstairs crying,” he told the court.

“On another occasion Karla was on the phone to her daughter. She had put food in a microwave and Garay left without eating.”

He claimed Garay would sometimes sit with his coat over his head refusing to talk to anyone.

The trial was delayed this morning when an interpreter failed to show up to translate for a number of prosecution witnesses.