A THAI delegate was found dead in a toilet cubicle with blood on her face and body, a court has heard.

Dr Marie-Anne Vandenhende, 33, said security guard Clive Carter told her and a friend not to use the toilets because there was a fire.

But she told the High Court in Glasgow that after using another toilet, they went back to have a look. She said: "The whole situation was a bit strange."

The jury heard the French doctor saw Khanikporn Satjawat lying in the cubicle dead and covered in blood and that "what was left" of the left side of her face was badly injured.

She was giving evidence at the trial of Mr Carter, 35, of Motherwell, who is accused of murdering Miss Satjawat by repeatedly striking her on the head and body with a fire extinguisher at Clyde Auditorium, on November 12, last year.

He has pleaded guilty to the culpable homi-cide of Miss Satjawat and has lodged a special defence of diminished responsibility, but the Crown did not accept this plea.

Dr Vandenhende told the court that she was at the conference at the SECC on November 12, last year, and went to a lecture with her friend Sabrina Caldato.

She said they went to the toilet and before they got in, the door was opened by Carter.

The witness claimed he was holding a fire extinguisher and said there was a fire.

She told advocate depute John Scullion that Mr Carter seemed "agitated" and "worr-ied" and "his face was a bit red".

They later returned and looked inside. She said: "Sabrina turned round towards me and she looked really pale and she said 'I'm not joking there's a body'."

Asked what she saw she said: "A lady lying down with lots of blood round her head and her body."

She said: "She had blood all around her head and on her body and she was not moving. She didn't seem to be breathing."

The trial continues.