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           <description><![CDATA[  A SHOPKEEPER who bludgeoned his postmistress wife to death has lost his appeal against the conviction.
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           <description><![CDATA[  THE mother of murder victim Diana Garbutt says her cherished memories of her daughter will never fade as killer Robin Garbutt is found guilty of her death.
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           <description><![CDATA[  THE jury in the trial of a North Yorkshire shopkeeper accused of murdering his wife will return today for a third day of deliberations.
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           <description><![CDATA[THE jury will return for a third day of deliberations in the trial of a North Yorkshire shopkeeper accused of murdering his wife.]]></description>
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  THE jury in the trial of sub-postmaster Robin Garbutt has been told to consider whether he killed his wife and then hid the murder weapon in the “dead of night”.
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  DETECTIVES hunting the killer of sub-postmistress Diana Garbutt tried to “cherry pick” the evidence to fit a theory that she was murdered by her husband, a court has heard.
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           <description><![CDATA[  A SHOPKEEPER accused of bludgeoning his wife to death was the only man she had ever trusted, his mother told a court.
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  A SHOPKEEPER accused of murdering his wife as she slept said the accusation was “a terrible, awful thing to say”.
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           <title>Melsonby murder trial: ‘I would never hurt my Di’</title>
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  A SHOPKEEPER who denies murdering his postmistress wife claimed in court he would “never hurt her”.
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           <title>Melsonby murder trial: tears from accused Robin Garbutt in court</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  A shopkeeper accused of murdering his postmistress wife broke down and wept as a court heard a recording of his 999 call for help.
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           <title>Melsonby murder trial: victim’s secret life is revealed</title>
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  A MURDERED postmistress was unhappy about her sex life with her husband and had been “intimate” with another man in York, a court has heard.
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  A NORTH Yorkshire sub-postmaster was facing mounting debt problems at the time he allegedly beat his wife to death, a jury was told yesterday.
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  A postmaster accused of murdering his wife spent expensive weekends away with her at luxury hotels, their temporary stand-in told a court.
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           <title>Melsonby murder trial: Police officer’s DNA found on murder weapon</title>
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  A YORK-BASED police officer was quizzed after his DNA was found on the murder weapon believed to have been used to bludgeon a sub-postmaster’s wife to death.
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           <title>Melsonby murder trial: ‘Murdered wife had no defensive injuries’</title>
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           <description><![CDATA[  JURORS in the trial of a sub-postmaster accused of battering his wife to death as she lay sleeping were yesterday shown photographs of her blood-stained pillow.
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  A VILLAGE shopkeeper accused of bludgeoning his wife to death shed no tears when he told police about her death, a court heard.
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  A village shopkeeper bludgeoned his unfaithful wife to death then pretended their post office had been robbed, a jury heard.
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  HUNDREDS of people gathered to pay their last respects to a North Yorkshire postmistress who was the victim of a brutal murder.
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  THE husband of a North Yorkshire postmistress has appeared in court charged with her murder.
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           <description><![CDATA[The husband of murdered postmistress Diana Garbutt has been charged with her murder.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[Robin Garbutt, the husband of murdered North Yorkshire postmistress Diana Garbutt has spoken publicly of his loss for the first time since he found her body above the post office where they lived and worked together. She grew up in the Selby area.]]></description>
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  POLICE hunting the killer of postmistress Diana Garbutt carried out stop checks of vehicles exactly a week after the murder.
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           <description><![CDATA[  A DISTRAUGHT former York man has told police how a masked man brandishing a gun told him: “We’ve got your wife.”
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           <description><![CDATA[  POLICE have launched a murder hunt after a North Yorkshire woman was found dead in a village post office.
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