A man who killed his ex-girlfriend and buried her body in a forest sent a string of text messages to her children in a cruel charade to make it seem their mum was still alive.
After murdering Katie Kenyon, 33, and burying her body in a shallow grave, Andrew Burfield, 51, sent messages from her phone to her daughter, 12, and son, 14. The messages, which evil Burfield had drafted weeks earlier in his iPhone Notes app, claimed to be from Katie and gave instructions for her children when she did not return home on April 22 this year, a court heard.
Katie, a mum of two, had been in an on-off relationship with Burfield since July 2016. He was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 32 years, by a judge on Thursday after changing his not guilty plea to one of guilty part way through a crown court trial.
