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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Eleanor Barlow

Man told police he accidentally killed woman, court hears

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A man accused of murdering a woman and burying her in a makeshift grave told police he accidentally killed her when throwing an axe at a tree, a court has heard.

Andrew Burfield, 51, is accused of murdering 33-year-old Katie Kenyon on April 22 and burying her body in a grave, which he had dug the day before her death, in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.

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