Killer jailed for 32 years for axe murder of mother-of-two Katie Kenyon
Andrew Burfield, 51, killed and buried 33-year-old Katie Kenyon in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, on April 22.Burfield, of Todmorden Road, Burnley, initially denied murder and told officers he had accidentally killed Ms Kenyon, from Padiham, when he threw an axe after she bet him he could not hit a can of Coke with it.A post-mortem examination revealed the mother-of-two, who began a relationship with Burfield in 2019, suffered at least 12 head injuries.
On April 21 he travelled to Gisburn Forest with a set of ladders and spade he had borrowed from his parents. He went back to the location the following day with Miss Kenyon, travelling in his Ford Transit van and stopping off at McDonald's on the way, the court heard. The jury in his trial was told Burfield spent just over 42 minutes in the forest, where he killed her and buried her body.
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