Teenager guilty of murdering teaching assistant in Accrington

Boy, 17, killed Lindsay Birbeck, 47, after she went for a walk in woods near her home

A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty of the murder of a teaching assistant who was found buried in a shallow grave at the back of a cemetery after going on an afternoon walk.

The body of Lindsay Birbeck, 47, a mother of two, was discovered wrapped in two plastic bags in Accrington cemetery in Lancashire on 24 August last year.