A POLICE dog handler has told a jury yesterday how his Belgium Shepherd Jack led him to the body of murder victim Kelly Hyde.

PC Alun Edward Williams said Jack picked up her scent even though it was three days after she had been killed.

He told Swansea crown court how he placed a top worn by 24-year-old Miss Hyde into a bag and allowed Jack to put his nose inside.

Then he took him to Mill Terrace in Ammanford where he immediately picked up a scent.

Jack led PC Williams across the road and onto a bridle path. About four hundred metres along he became "agitated" in an area where the undergrowth on the left hand side of the path appeared to have been trampled.

The dog then took PC Williams to the opposite side of the lane and down a narrower path leading to a stream.

Jack continued into the stream and returned with a shoe before PC Williams spotted the body lying face down in the water.

A week later he carried out a similar exercise, this time using an item of clothing from the 17-year-old youth on trial for murder. Jack again picked up a scent.

PC Williams, who has since retired from the force, said he could not say how long the scents had been there.

The prosecution alleges that the youth spotted Miss Hyde walking her dog along Mill Terrace on September 27 and followed her onto the bridle path.

Patrick Harrington, prosecuting, said the youth viciously attacked Miss Hyde "in an explosion of violence and anger."

The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, denies murder and the trial continues.