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Killer of homosexual gets life

Friday 20 June 1997 18:02 EDT
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The killer of a 47-year-old homosexual man beaten to death at a picnic site was jailed for life yesterday. Norwich Crown Court heard that Marc Kelsey of Lakenheath, Suffolk, suffered at least 20 blows from a baseball bat. His skull was fractured in several places.

His killer, Andrew Wright, 28, of Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, attacked him at the popular site on the Bury St Edmunds to Mildenhall road in Suffolk, which was used as a meeting place for gays.He denied the April 1994 murder but was unanimously convicted by the jury.

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