A person has been jailed for all times with a minimal time period of 32 years for the homicide of his ex-girlfriend Katie Kenyon, whose physique was present in a shallow grave in a forest.
Andrew Burfield, 51 and from Burnley, initially claimed the axe assault was an accident, however a autopsy confirmed the mother-of-two was struck an estimated 12 instances.
‘Ferocious and merciless’
He modified his plea on the third day of his trial at Preston Crown Court.
The decide described Burfield’s responsible plea as “a final recognition your game plan had failed”.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Goose stated: “In your relationship… I’m satisfied you were manipulative and controlling while she was vulnerable” including “it was a ferocious and cruel attack”.
The jury heard Burfield travelled to Gisburn Forest in Lancashire in April for a picnic with Miss Kenyon.
He then claimed she had “bet” him he couldn’t hit her can of Coke together with his axe.
Killer claimed he was ‘frightened’ about sufferer
A forensic pathologist described his declare that he hit Miss Kenyon, 33, unintentionally as “completely implausible”.
Burfield buried her physique in a grave, which he dug the day earlier than her dying, within the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.
The jury was instructed he despatched messages from Miss Kenyon’s cellphone to himself and her kids after the homicide.
Burfield even left a voice notice wherein he stated he was “a bit worried” about her.
Initially, Burfield instructed officers he did not know her whereabouts, then modified his model of occasions and revealed the place he had buried the physique.
‘Torture’ of police search
The courtroom additionally heard a press release from Miss Kenyon’s sister, Sarah Kenyon-Holden, who described the “torture” the household went by way of as police looked for her.
She stated: “Katie told us she wanted to stop Andrew Burfield from being able to do what he did to her to other women.
“She wished to cease him. She wished solutions. This value her her life.”
Source: information.sky.com”