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Tenerife murder trial

The family of a woman from Norfolk savagely attacked in Tenerife have come face to face with her alleged killer.

60-year-old Jennifer Mills-Westley had retired to the holiday island when she was the victim of a gruesome crime.

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Drug addict guilty of beheading woman

A Bulgarian drug addict who beheaded a British grandmother, originally from Norfolk, in a frenzied knife attack on the holiday island of Tenerife has been found guilty of murder.

Homeless Deyan Deyanov, 29, was convicted by a jury of nine at the Provincial Court in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

He repeatedly stabbed and then beheaded Jennifer Mills-Westley, 60, who had been shopping in the popular resort of Los Cristianos on May 13, 2011.

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