A Bradford taxi driver has told a jury he saw wheeler dealer Leonard Fulbirg in a snooker club four months after he was allegedly lured to his death.

David Marshall said he was "a hundred per cent positive" that it was Mr Fulbirg in the 147 Snooker Club in Laisterdyke in early December 1996.

Mr Marshall told a murder trial at Leeds Crown Court yesterday that he knew Mr Fulbirg and had seen him at car auctions.

He said he was working for Tong Taxis and living in Holme Wood at the time.

Mr Marshall said he saw a TV programme on December 9, 1996, about Mr Fulbirg being a missing person.

He rang the helpline the same night and told police about the sighting.

Mr Fulbirg's lover, Tracey Cameron, is accused of luring him to his death on August 11, 1996. She and Graham Haylett, who became her boyfriend, deny murder.

Earlier, Cameron, 40, a mother of three, of Dunsford Avenue, Bierley, told the court that she could not believe that Mr Fulbirg was dead.

"I can't still accept he's not here. The last time I saw this man he was fine, there was nothing wrong with him.

"I am sorry but I won't speak about him in the past tense because as far as I am concerned he's not," she said.

Cameron told the jury that she was disgusted that she is alleged to have told women at a refuge that Mr Fulbirg had been killed and fed to the pigs. "I still love this man no matter how people condemn me for it," she said.

Mr Fulbirg, 49, the father of at least 12 children, vanished overnight after leaving his brother's house in Cold Beck Drive, Buttershaw.

He had arranged to meet Cameron at McDonalds in Rooley Lane, Bradford, but she says she never turned up. The dismembered remains of Mr Fulbirg were found on Oxenhope Moor above Keighley in March 1997 but he was not identified until 2003 when there were breakthroughs in DNA technology.

After Mr Fulbirg disappears, Cameron told the court she wondered where he had gone but was not worried that he had come to harm.

She believed that he had picked up another woman or gone underground for several months.

"I thought he would spring up again at some point," she said.

She read in the Telegraph & Argus on June 22, 2004, that the bones found on the moor had been identified as Mr Fulbirg's.

"I was numb. I was totally numb. I just went into overdrive," she said.

The trial continues.