A MAN was remanded in custody yesterday charged with murder.

Robert Richardson, 27, from Dewsbury, was charged with murdering Susan Cooper.

Her partly decomposed body was found wrapped in bin liners near a canal in Thornhill.

Richardson appeared before magistrates in Dewsbury.

The body of Ms Cooper, 30, of Bradford, was discovered beside the Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal in Hall Lane shortly before 2pm on Monday.

She had died a number of weeks earlier.

A post-mortem showed she had a number of unexplained injuries.

Richardson, of The Combs, Thornhill, will appear before Leeds Crown Court on Friday, January 14.