A father-of-four was lured to a flat in Comber then subjected to a fatal beating before his body was placed in bin which was dumped in a lake, a court has heard.
William 'Pat' McCormick was murdered at the flat on Castle Street on May 30 2019.
After murdering the 55-year old, David Gill then placed McCormick's remains in bin. Gill secured the wheelie bin with straps and weighed it down with concrete blocks before driving it to a relative's house in Ballygowan.
Once at the cottage, the bin containing Mr McCormick's body was dumped in a lake at the rear of the property where it lay for six weeks before being recovered from the water by a diving team on July 9.
Five people appeared at Belfast Crown Court on Monday on charges arising from Mr McCormick's death.
David Gill (30) of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty last May to murdering Mr McCormick and was handed a life sentence.
His fiancee Lesley Ann Dodds is due to be sentenced for manslaughter.
It's the Crown's case that Dodds, who is from Queen Victoria Gardens in Belfast and who turns 25 on Tuesday, lured McCormick to her flat where he was murdered by David Gill.
Three other men each admitted a single charge of withholding information. They are David Gill's brother William Gill (43) from Terrace View in Waringstown, 24-year old Andrew Leslie (24) from Mourne Crescent in Moneyrea and Jonathon Richard Leslie Montgomerty (24) from Castle Espie Road in Comber.
All five defendants were informed by Mr Justice Scoffield that they will be sentenced next Thursday (June 22).
Prior to this, the senior judge was told by Crown barrister David McDowell that Mr McCormick was "just short of ten stone and no physical match for the defendant David Gill who is twice his size."
The prosecutor played portions of CCTV to the court which showed Mr McCormick's last movements before he was killed.
The CCTV showed the deceased walking along Castle Street in Comber and walking through an archway which led to Dodds' flat.
Mr McDowell read out a series of relevant text messages sent and received in the hours leading to the fatal attack.
The prosecutor said the morning of the murder, Gill sent a message to Mr McCormick's wife telling her her husband was having an affair with his fiancee.
They continued to communicate via text and in the middle of this, Dodds tried to call Mr McCormick. In later messages from her Facebook account, a message said she had left Gill and asked Mr McCormick to come to her flat.
At 10.47pm he was captured on CCTV walking along Castle Street - and as Mr McDowell pointed out "this was the last time he was seen alive by anyone other than his killer."