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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Simon Coyle

Man who killed his ex-girlfriend with axe and buried her body in forest has been jailed for life

A man who killed his ex-girlfriend and buried her body in a forest has been jailed for life.

Andrew Burfield, 51, killed 33-year-old Katie Kenyon on April 22 before burying her body in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire. Katie, a mother of two, had been in and on and off relationship with Burfield since July 2016.

Burfield, of Todmorden Road, Burnley, initially denied murder. He had told officers he had accidentally killed Miss Kenyon, from Padiham, when he threw an axe after she bet him he could not hit a can of Coke with it.

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