POLICE called to a suspicious suitcase found on a North Yorkshire roadside found hair and blood leaking out, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

Inside, they discovered the body of 21-year-old Jin Hyo Jung, who had suffocated after being bound with tape.

Pathologist Professor Christopher Milroy said that he had never come across the way the 21-year-old had died, but had encountered it during a professional presentation in America.

He was giving evidence in the trial of landlord Kim Kyu Soo, 31.

The prosecution alleges Mr Kim used artistic tape to suffocate 21-year-old Jin Hyo Jung, a French literature graduate, while she was staying at his home.

She was found in a suitcase which Mr Kim allegedly left in a country lane at Askham Richard, North Yorkshire. When officers shone a torch, they saw hair and blood slowly leaking out, the court heard.

Mr Kim, of Holborn, London, denies murdering Miss Jin between October 25 and 28, and another student, Song In Hea, 22, between December 3 and 8, 2001.

They were both South Korean women on visits to Britain when ''they were murdered in the most chilling and distressing circumstances'', Jonathan Laidlaw, prosecuting, has told the court.

Mr Kim admitted the manslaughter of Miss Song, but his plea to the lesser charge was not accepted by the prosecution.

The trial continues today.