Lancashire Evening Telegraph journalists who were taken to the scene of a wife-killer's crime have relived their experience giving evidence in court.

Robert Lund has been jailed for 12 years after a French jury found him guilty of killing his wife, following a week-long trial in the southern town of Albi.

He killed Evelyn, (52), after a row at their home in the village of La Veaute on December 29, 1999.

In 2003, he took picture editor Neil Johnson and reporter Clare Cook straight to the remote French lake where Evelyn Lund's body was found two years before, despite saying he had never been there.

Yet, despite researching its location, the journalists had previously spent an hour looking for the spot without success.

Neil told the jury: "We had seen pictures from a French newspaper but we looked for about an hour and were unable to find the exact spot.

"Mr Lund told us he had never been to the lake previously so I was somewhat surprise to find he took us to the exact position. There were several incidents that took me by surprise."

Click here to read Neil's account of his part in the trial.

Clare, who is no longer with the Telegraph, said: "Lund was very co-operative and that the only time he became slightly agitated was when she asked him if he had killed Evelyn.

"His face went red. It was a bizarre and unique situation but he was always at ease with us."

He dumped her body, inside her Toyota 4x4, in a nearby lake, where it stayed undiscovered for 22 months.

Lund was cleared of murder, which means that the jury did not accept that he intended to kill her. The jury took three and half hours to reach its verdict of involuntary homicide.

The newspaper has been running a special section on its website to cover the investigation and trial.