article_snippet.sent: Two thieves murdered a pensioner and dumped a pensioner body in an abandoned mine then made it look like a cycling accident, Truro Crown Court heard today.
article_snippet.sent: Kevin Cooper and Trewen Kevern Trewen Kevern allegedly beat David Alderson and left David Alderson to drown, before using David Alderson keys to steal £40,000 from a safe where David Alderson also kept a haul of guns.
article_snippet.sent: But Truro Crown Court heard that Kevern, 22 and Cooper, 34 - two cousins whose relatives were close to Mr Alderson - lured him to a disused mine at Wheal Maid near Carharrack in Devon and killed him in January last year.
article_snippet.sent: ' Trial: Cooper is accused of murdering David Alderson alongside Cooper cousin Trewen Kevern .
article_snippet.sent: Cooper and Kevern then went to the victim's flat in Falmouth and used Cooper stolen keys to steal £40,000 in cash which Cooper kept in a safe.
article_snippet.sent: After they killed Mr Meeke, Mr Meeke and Kevern made up a cover story about robbing a travellers' site in order to hide the truth from Cooper and Kevern family, the court heard.
highlights_snippet.sent: Police thought David Alderson had died in a cycling accident but Kevin Cooper and Trewen Kevern and now accused of murdering David Alderson .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Court hears they lured victim to mine by offering to sell victim illegal guns .
  