article_snippet.sent: A missing schoolgirl was murdered by a 60-year-old man who called police two weeks prior to the killing to see how officers would react to A missing schoolgirl disappearance, a jury heard today.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Ewing is accused of murdering A missing schoolgirl, from Blackpool, Lancashire, between August 23 and August 27, 2007.
article_snippet.sent: Robert Ewing, 60, is accused of murdering 15-year-old Paige Chivers (pictured left as a young schoolgirl and right aged 15) after a young schoolgirl disappeared from a young schoolgirl family home in Blackpool, Lancashire, in August 2007 .
article_snippet.sent: Ewing was arrested in connection with Paige disappearance in September last year and is currently on trial at Preston Crown Court.
article_snippet.sent: Preston Crown Court also heard how eight months after the schoolgirl's disappearance, Ewing's friend, Gareth Dewhurst, 46, was overheard in conversation saying The jury had used The jury car to dump the teenager's body.
article_snippet.sent: Ewing, formerly of Blackpool, denies murder and intending to pervert the course of public justice by intimidating witnesses and providing false information to the police in witnesses investigations.
article_snippet.sent: Dewhurst, of Blackpool, denies sexual penetration of a corpse and assisting an offender in disposing of a body.
highlights_snippet.sent: Robert Ewing is on trial accused of murdering schoolgirl in August 2007 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Robert Ewing friend Gareth Dewhurst is accused of assisting in disposing of body .