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00:02A young mother vanishes without a trace
00:05in a rural part of Lancashire in the northwest of England.
00:10Where is she? Where has she been left?
00:13What has happened to Katie?
00:16Quickly, a prime suspect emerges,
00:19but he is determined to lead the investigation astray.
00:23Everything that he says has happened has been proved to not be true,
00:26proved to be impossible.
00:30They didn't see this as a straightforward missing person case.
00:33They had helicopters up, they had dogs, they had officers.
00:37Everybody was searching the forest for this shallow grave.
00:47The forest of Boland is such a picturesque place.
00:50It's a real beauty spot.
00:52It's the last place that you would expect something so dark
00:56and chilling to take place.
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01:38The Forest of Boland, also known as Boland Fells,
01:42is a picturesque area of gritstone fells and valleys
01:45in the northeast of Lancashire.
01:49Boland in Lancashire is a beautiful rural part of the UK.
01:54There's over 800 kilometres of an area of outstanding natural beauty
01:58in the forest surrounding it.
02:00It's one of the most, you know, idyllic places
02:03that people would associate with the greener parts of England.
02:12It's really popular for people that are taking the dogs out for walks.
02:15There's lots of people that go hiking,
02:17but a mountain biking goes on up there.
02:20I mean, in an area like that,
02:22you wouldn't expect to see a great deal of crime,
02:24you know, particularly things like violent crime,
02:26because obviously it's an area that is very, very sparsely populated.
02:30The most emergency services involvement you'd often see
02:32would be things like, you know, mountain rescues of walkers
02:35as opposed to actual crime and, you know,
02:38the police being called in to investigate serious incidents particularly.
02:43But on April 22nd, 2022, unspeakable horrors take place in the forest.
02:50A local woman has disappeared.
02:54It didn't feel right at all.
02:56She was a mum who would have been home for her children,
02:58so it was one of those that from the off really felt a bit worrying.
03:04The missing woman is identified as 33-year-old Katie Kenyon
03:07from Burnley, Lancashire.
03:10Katie Kenyon was a mother of two.
03:12She was in her early 30s,
03:13and she was somebody that was known for, you know,
03:16not just love of her own kids, but of all kids.
03:18She loved to be surrounded by children and young people,
03:21you know, even to the extent that she tried to set up summer camps
03:23for children in her local area.
03:25She loved to spend time with her dog,
03:27and she was really happy in the outdoors.
03:30She was also close to her family.
03:32She was, you know, described as a beautiful soul by her family
03:35and somebody that was really outgoing, vivacious and lively,
03:39somebody that liked to be around other people
03:41and had so much going on for her.
03:44She has had her ups and downs.
03:47She's split from her previous partner,
03:50but she's got her life back on track.
03:53She's got her children.
03:54She's got her beloved dog, Indy.
03:56She's got two sisters.
03:58She's the middle sister.
03:59She's got her mum.
04:01She normally texts her mum two or three times a day,
04:04so she's a real family person,
04:06and she's extremely loved, likeable.
04:10Her family even say that, you know,
04:12she's a little bit silly in the sense of, you know,
04:15she's got a great sense of humour.
04:17So she's someone that is...
04:19She's special.
04:20She's really special.
04:28Katie's family are the first to sense something is wrong
04:30when they receive texts from her phone that seem unusual.
04:34Well, the chain of events that makes Katie Canyon's family suspicious
04:37is that she disappears, they don't hear from her,
04:40or they hear from somebody using her phone,
04:43but they don't believe to be her.
04:45They say that the messages that are coming through,
04:47there are things like misspellings or grammatical or punctuation errors
04:50that she wouldn't ordinarily make.
04:52They were not in the way that Katie would phrase anything.
04:56The grammar was poor, the phraseology was poor.
05:00They became concerned that these text messages
05:02perhaps weren't actually from Katie at all.
05:06There was one word in particular that was repeatedly spelt wrong,
05:09and that word was while.
05:11Every time that word was used, and it was used several times,
05:15it was spelt without the H.
05:17The other glaring problem was that the messages spoke about the dog, Indy,
05:24and the dog's name was spelt wrong.
05:26Katie wouldn't have spelt her own dog's name wrong.
05:29Katie's on-off boyfriend, 51-year-old Andrew Burfield,
05:32also received strange text messages from her that day.
05:51Katie had been in an on-and-off relationship with Andrew Burfield.
05:55He was a builder, kind of doing odd jobs and so on.
05:58They didn't live together, but they were on and off in a relationship.
06:01My relationship with Burfield was very strange.
06:06He seemed to really manipulate her.
06:10Burfield would use her mental health against her.
06:14He really weaponised her mental health.
06:16She was suffering from anxiety.
06:20She had made that clear.
06:22He would always mention it.
06:25He'd be mentioning it in text messages.
06:27He'd mention it to her all the time.
06:29He'd mention it to her family.
06:31Really, we know that with coercive control,
06:34anxiety is only going to get worse.
06:36And so she's with someone.
06:38She's already anxious.
06:39And he's gaslighting her.
06:41And the more and more he mentions it,
06:43the more and more she's going to be getting anxious.
06:46And the more and more she might start believing
06:49that, actually, he's here to help me.
06:51But I do have all these problems and maybe I'm not good enough
06:56and maybe I'm not worthy and maybe I'm not a good enough mum
06:59and maybe I'm not a good enough sister.
07:02So he's chipping away and eroding her confidence.
07:07It's reported that Burfield had lent Katie some money.
07:11Debt collectors were involved,
07:13even though this was a personal arrangement.
07:15What was happening, though,
07:16was that Burfield was getting debt collectors involved
07:19who would understandably chase Katie for this money,
07:22but he would tell Katie not to worry,
07:24that it's going to be OK, that he will sort things out.
07:26So this really unusual split type of behaviour
07:30was going on behind the scenes.
07:33Financially abusing a victim
07:36can also ensure that they're further isolating them.
07:41I'm a bit worried.
07:46Just ring me.
07:47I have to do this.
07:48I'm not worried about the money.
07:49I'm not worried about the money.
07:50Just ring me, please.
07:56He's saying, well, don't worry about the money, Babs.
07:59I'll sort it and I'll pay it.
08:02Now, it's an accumulating debt.
08:05So it's gone from sort of 2,000 to 4,000 to 6,000.
08:09And this, for someone who is highly anxious,
08:13is going to be absolutely terrifying them.
08:17She's worried she's going to lose her home.
08:19She's worried she's going to lose everything.
08:22And then behind the scenes,
08:24he's phoning up the debt collectors saying,
08:27can you put more pressure on her?
08:29And then he goes back to her again.
08:32Oh, it's OK.
08:33Don't worry about the money.
08:35It's fine.
08:36It's all going to be OK.
08:37I'm going to help you.
08:39He's this knight in shining armour.
08:41So there's this absolute duplicitous occurrence of what's going on with this money.
08:53And it's definitely there to control her.
09:00It soon becomes evident that Katie had been fearful of Burfield in the months leading up to her disappearance.
09:07Things were so bad that Katie at one point had said to her sister,
09:10if I disappear, if something happens to me, it will be him.
09:14That gives you an indication of just how bad things were in that relationship.
09:19But the extent, too, of the control that Andrew Burfield had over her,
09:22that she wasn't able to break free of that.
09:26It seemed to be the case that they'd separated on some level.
09:32But Burfield just kept reeling her back in.
09:34He just kept telling her, I'm going to get you the help.
09:37He had this money that he was holding over her.
09:39He had her in the palm of his hand, really, in one way.
09:45Katie's family grow increasingly worried for her well-being
09:47and decide to go to Burfield's house to see if he's had contact with her.
09:52Katie's sister and her boyfriend turn up at Burfield's house
09:59and, oddly, he's not allowing them entry.
10:03Her car is outside Andrew Burfield's home
10:06and her family see this vehicle there, realise that they can't get hold of her.
10:09So that's the point at which the alarm is raised with the police.
10:12Evidence is beginning to suggest that Burfield may know more
10:15than he's letting on about Katie's disappearance.
10:18Her sister calls the police, who pay Burfield a visit.
10:21What will he reveal?
10:3933-year-old Katie Kenyon, a mother of two from Burnley, Lancashire, has disappeared,
10:44raising concerns among her family after they receive suspicious text messages from her phone.
10:48Her sister pays a visit to Andrew Burfield, Katie's on-off boyfriend,
10:52who has been financially manipulating her and notices her car is parked outside his house.
10:57She calls the police, who arrive promptly to investigate.
11:04And then you see this incredible footage of the body-worn video that the officers are wearing
11:08when they confront Andrew Burfield about the whereabouts of Katie Kenyon.
11:14These guys outside are concerned like Katie. Do you know where she is?
11:17Yeah, yeah. No, I don't.
11:18What's happening is that I got a text of us two.
11:23Today?
11:24Yeah, saying I came to your house and I came to my studio services.
11:27From Katie?
11:27Yeah.
11:35You know, he immediately sparks up a cigarette, seems quite nervous, but what he doesn't
11:42seem is emotional or concerned or worried at that time either about where she might be.
11:46He doesn't share the same emotions as the family, even though he's with her.
11:51And that's quite a poignant thing to look at somebody's body language at that point.
11:55She told me she wanted to walk.
11:57She told me she said she dropped the car off this morning.
12:01And then it's done.
12:03Before that message came from you.
12:07So, you woke up two baths.
12:09That's me, you woke up two baths.
12:11And that wrote to half one.
12:13She put, just out on a walk.
12:15You.
12:17Burfield didn't seem worried in the slightest.
12:19He was just saying, no, I'm not, you know, this has only just happened.
12:23But then, from the messages that he showed the police, it seemed that he'd been concerned
12:30about her from two o'clock that afternoon.
12:33So, several hours, he'd been texting her, saying, come home.
12:37Didn't add up.
12:39Sorry to interrupt.
12:40So, are you concerned, Katie?
12:41Yeah.
12:42So, have you been calling attention any of this?
12:45No, no, because it's only just happened.
12:46It's, it's, I've had a sister around.
12:48Oh, you said their message come at half two.
12:49Yeah, so the message come through at quarter to two.
12:52Yeah.
12:52And you've replied pretty much straight away.
12:55And I'm just wondering, because you said it's only just happened, but it's happened at,
12:59like, two o'clock this afternoon.
13:01Yeah, but I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I came here at four.
13:04To be honest with you, I thought it was just like, I don't know, I'm just, it's like.
13:08So, you weren't concerned?
13:10I were, but I, I, I, I weren't, if you were ill.
13:13Okay.
13:15Having viewed the body cam footage, it's really clear to me that the police that attended
13:19the house knew that something wasn't right.
13:22They were questioning Burfield.
13:23They were trying to get to the bottom of what happened.
13:25They didn't see this as a straightforward missing person case.
13:45The day progresses without anyone having seen or heard from Katie, and Burfield denies
13:50any knowledge of her whereabouts.
13:52Police now ramp up their investigation.
13:55They know that there have been these messages from Katie's phone, so they're then able to
14:00investigate those, and they can kind of use cell site analysis to ping where that phone
14:05has been, basically.
14:06And what they can see from that is that as well as being at Andrew Burfield's property,
14:10the phone has left that area and has been in the area of Gisborne Forest for around 51
14:14minutes earlier that day.
14:16So that's something that enables them a very quick way of locating at least where that device
14:21has been, if not necessarily where Katie has been.
14:23But they're then able to use that triangulated phone data against camera showings from CCTV
14:29that prove that Burfield's transit van left that area with Katie in the vehicle.
14:36When it returned around an hour later, she's not in the vehicle, but the phone still is.
14:41What they couldn't see was Andrew Burfield's phone moving at all from his home address,
14:46as though it's been left there.
14:47However, what they could see, Katie's phone, once that phone has then cell sighted back
14:53to Andrew Burfield's home, it goes off.
14:57Which is ringing all sorts of alarm bells.
15:01Where is she?
15:02Where did he drop her off?
15:04Where has she been left?
15:06What has happened to Katie?
15:09The SIO then makes a decision to say, right, this person is no longer essentially a person
15:14of interest.
15:15He is now a suspect.
15:17And decisions were made to go back to him, back to Andrew Burfield's house, the following
15:22day on the 23rd of April.
15:24What they found when they got to the house, though, was that even though it was a really
15:27hot day, the log burner was on.
15:29It was really hot and this was unusual.
15:31It was so hot, it was like a furnace inside the house, an indication there that perhaps
15:37things are being burnt on that fire, you know, completely unnecessary to have it, so why
15:41has he got that fire burning?
15:43A decision was made at that point when they could link that van to Andrew Burfield and
15:48say, she was in that van when she left, when your van came back, she was no longer there.
15:54So, without a body, without any evidence at that stage in his inquiry, the SIO makes a
16:01decision that he should be arrested for kidnap.
16:08Where is the last location that you know that she was?
16:14It was at my house.
16:17Right, so you know she was at your house?
16:19Okay, and when was that?
16:20What was it, um, 9.20, yesterday morning.
16:24Okay.
16:25So, since then, you don't know whereabouts?
16:29I don't know where she's going from there, no.
16:31Right.
16:32As questioning continues, Burfield begins to reveal more information.
16:37He told the police at one point that he'd lent Katie £6,000 to go and check into a rehab
16:43centre or a clinic.
16:44I think she's at a rehab centre.
16:46A rehab centre?
16:47Or some sort of clinic.
16:49Right, okay.
16:51And where would that be?
16:52I haven't got a clue.
16:54Right.
16:54And why do you think that she's at that location?
16:57Because that's not that location, one of them locations.
17:00He has no idea where this rehab clinic or centre is, what its name is, how she would have
17:05got there, given that her vehicle is still outside.
17:07So he's still then saying, oh, she's gone there, I don't know anything.
17:12I'm going to appeal to you now to let me know if you do know anything at all.
17:16I'll tell you, I'll go and get her myself.
17:18Yeah?
17:19Okay, because I'm sure you're aware that her family are really, really concerned.
17:22Yeah.
17:23The last place she's known to be is Potts Up On Door Road.
17:26Yeah, of course.
17:27Yeah, which is obviously why you're in custody.
17:29So it's reasonable for us to think that you may know where she is.
17:32Yeah, okay.
17:33All right.
17:34So please, if you do know.
17:36I don't, honestly.
17:38Okay.
17:39Bye.
17:55With such a unique case in this rural area, it becomes a huge inquiry for that senior
18:03investigating officer.
18:04He's bringing in resources, quite rightly, from all sorts of places.
18:07Mountain rescue.
18:08He's got dogs.
18:09He's got drones and planes.
18:11Everybody looking.
18:12Because essentially, Gisborne Forest, where that was the last place where they believe
18:16she may have been taken to, is a 25-mile radius.
18:21It's a huge area.
18:22And, of course, he needs to narrow down.
18:25He's not getting any help from Andrew Burfield about where she might be.
18:28He has an idea of the direction of the van was going in.
18:32But what happens when there's no CCTV, when there's no cell site information?
18:36And now he's just faced with the forest.
18:41So the next step we decide to do is, well, let's ramp up this media repeal.
18:46The last sighting of Katie Kenyon was around half past nine on Friday morning, when a woman
18:52matching her description was seen getting into a silver transit van with a man in Burnley.
18:58That van had quite a distinctive panel on the side of it.
19:02It was a white van with a patched-up area on the side.
19:04Someone came forward and said, oh, we saw this van at this time parked up here.
19:11So that means that they can narrow down the search now and they have this part of the forest where
19:19they can now look.
19:21The media appeal results in a significant development in the investigation.
19:27Andrew Burfield was a jobbing builder, but he turned up for a job in slightly unusual circumstances, earlier than the
19:34people, the occupiers of the home he was working on would have expected.
19:37And he engaged them in a slightly odd conversation, asking them when their bins were going to be emptied.
19:42That obviously raises some suspicions, and at that point, that bin is then searched, and under the homeowner's refuse, there
19:47is some stashed waste, if you like, and in that there are bags within bags, some of which have heavy
19:53blood staining, and Katie's flip-flops are in there as well.
19:57Those items were fast-tracked through to check the DNA to find out whether, you know, whether that blood was,
20:02in fact, Katie's blood, as they suspected, and sadly, that came back positive.
20:09Even when the blood is found in the bottom of that bin with her flip-flops and trainers, obviously that
20:15can heighten your fear that something might have happened, but you cannot lose hope until you have proof that she
20:23is no longer alive.
20:24And the officers will hold that thought process throughout to make sure that there is nothing that stops them from
20:32that continued, overnight, constant working at pace to try and find her alive.
20:38In a forest area of that size, there is every possibility that, yes, she may be very badly injured, but
20:45she may be alive, and there may be that possibility to save her.
20:49Faced with mounting evidence against him, Burfield decides to speak to the police.
20:55He realises now he's in a really difficult predicament, and that even if they haven't got a body at this
21:00stage, that there is now evidence that she has come to some kind of injury.
21:04He changed his story quite drastically.
21:07Burfield is about to reveal a story that would shock even the most hardened investigators.
21:25On 22nd April 2022, Katie Kenyon, a 33-year-old mother of two, disappeared without a trace in a rural
21:33part of Lancashire.
21:35Police investigated her on-off boyfriend, 51-year-old Andrew Burfield, after he was seen on CCTV driving Katie in
21:42his van, and blood-stained bags were located at his workplace.
21:46With the evidence surmounting against him, Burfield decides it is time to tell police his version of the story.
21:53Andrew Burfield has asked to be interviewed.
21:57Now, this is quite unusual, because when somebody does that, you think, well, they've got something to say, and potentially,
22:02you hope, at that stage, maybe even a confession to say, this is what's happened.
22:06I believe that you want to speak to us today, so I'm just going to hand it up to you
22:11to tell us what you want to say.
22:13Part of the van, I believe, we went to our side, which we've always gone to.
22:17I say always, we've gone to our side, we've gone to our side, we've gone to our side, we've gone
22:19to the place.
22:19Right.
22:21That's where she still is.
22:24That's where she still is.
22:25OK.
22:27Andrew Burfield then comes up with his story to say, we were in this part of the forest, we went
22:32there for a picnic, but during that time there, Katie dared me to throw an axe that I had and
22:40knock a Coke can out of her hand.
22:42And, of course, he's, you know, for everybody listening to that at that particular point would be, well, that's just
22:48ridiculous.
22:49Why would somebody even ask you to do that?
22:52And, of course, then when they go in to speak to him further, he says, well, I decided not to
22:56do that, so I threw it at a tree, but I accidentally threw it and it hit her.
23:01And that was kind of his story.
23:03It's an accidental death.
23:06So we don't know what went wrong.
23:08You were aiming at the tree and...
23:10You know, I can't even say I slipped, fell, but I don't even know what went wrong.
23:14It's a stupid thing that I'll ever do that.
23:19It's so much so stupid.
23:21How close was she from?
23:27I think.
23:32He then said that he was in the middle of the forest, there was no mobile phone reception to call
23:36for help, he was panicking, he didn't think that he was strong enough to lift Katie and take her to
23:43get medical assistance or take her anywhere.
23:47There's no help there, you don't need nothing.
23:49No.
23:50No people.
23:51No signal on the phone, they can't carry her.
23:54It's a character.
23:55It's sort of a boyfriend, can't carry you, your girlfriend.
24:04Andrew Burfield continues to say that having thrown the axe and it's accidentally hit Katie, that he kind of, doesn't
24:12say he panicked, but what he does say is he went back to his van and he even considered killing
24:16himself at that point.
24:18But then he decides, in his mind, as he told the officers, that he needs to get his finances straight
24:23first.
24:24So he then goes back to Katie's body, which he now believes to be dead, and buries her in a
24:31shadow grave.
24:34I just don't know what I'm doing, honestly.
24:36I don't know.
24:37I'm calling it.
24:38I'm calling it.
24:38I'm calling it.
24:39I'm calling it.
24:44The officers then are thinking, right, okay, then, so where is it?
24:47Because what was clear is that they couldn't find something that fitted that description at all.
24:53This shallow grave, which would be a panic dig and then stuff thrown on top of it.
24:59But they couldn't see anything like that in the area where they had been focusing of where that van was
25:04last seen.
25:06They had helicopters up, they had dogs, they had officers searching the forest for this shallow grave, but it was,
25:13they couldn't find it.
25:15Andrew Burfield even tells the investigating officers, this is exactly where it happened and where she is.
25:22Well, the officers are there at the scene and they can't find it.
25:26So there's something that doesn't add up here.
25:28They're very curious as to where is she?
25:30Because we would normally see something like this and it would be obvious to our search teams, to the dogs,
25:37all sorts of things.
25:38So obviously it's confusing for them.
25:41They don't know where she is and they still haven't found her.
25:45They had all their top search people looking for this grave.
25:48I mean, it's horrific to think about.
25:51There's a young woman buried in the forest.
25:54They're going to use every resource that they've got for that.
25:56But it was so well hidden that they just couldn't find it.
26:00They realise that effectively, without his help, they're not going to be able to locate the exact site where she
26:05is
26:05because there is no evidence anywhere of the ground having been disturbed.
26:08It's a few days later when they produce him from prison.
26:14April 29th, 2022, police have now been searching for seven days for Katie Kenyon's body.
26:20As a last resort, police take Burfield out of custody and ask him to show them where he buried her.
26:27Now take us to where you buried the body.
26:29Help us because we can't find it.
26:31I've never heard of the police taking somebody out to a grave site like that before.
26:37But Burfield had done such a good job of hiding it that they were left with no other option.
26:44They needed to find Katie.
26:45They needed to get her a proper burial and the dignity that she deserved.
26:52And they also needed to get the evidence that they needed to convict her killer.
26:59When you produce someone from prison, obviously there's an element of security that has to be in place.
27:04What you don't want is that prisoner running away for a start.
27:08So you have a sufficient number of officers there to produce him from prison in a secure van
27:13and take him to the area where you want to take him.
27:17But of course those officers still talk about the fear that he may become violent or try and escape.
27:24But when you plan something like that, as the SIO did in this case, he's planned it so that that
27:29is not going to be a possibility.
27:31You know, we have everything in place to make sure he's not going anywhere.
27:34The main focus that SIO had was the reason you're here is to tell us where that body is and
27:40you're not going anywhere.
27:56As Andrew Burfield is being driven to the forest to identify where he has buried Katie,
28:03you can see from the footage above what a beautiful countryside, what an idyllic place this is
28:09and how incredibly unusual that something like this would happen in that area.
28:15But also in matching against this beautiful countryside is this dark and morbid kind of thing that has happened.
28:22And it's, you know, for people that live there and people that, you know, consider that a lot of people
28:27have gone to retire to those sort of places,
28:29this would be a very shocking thing for their community.
28:32And then to come out as he walks out of the van to identify where a body is, what he
28:38has done to this person,
28:39where he has buried that body is a deeply shocking thing.
29:13And then he suddenly sits down on the floor, crosses his legs, and it's that indication that this is where
29:20she is.
29:20Well, what was clear to the officers and the search teams there, some of these, you know, people have done
29:26this before,
29:27you know, are experts in this kind of thing, was that they couldn't see any makeshift shallow graves anywhere near
29:33he was sitting.
29:35He was a builder, so he knew about digging holes, but this was, it had been done with real precision.
29:44Archaeologists subsequently said that the ground had effectively been relayed perfectly with clay,
29:50with soil and then with topsoil.
29:53Absolutely flat and looked untouched.
29:56And even the root of one of the trees that was growing there, he'd managed to weave that in without
30:03damaging it.
30:04And, of course, that raised huge suspicions as to, well, that doesn't look like somebody who's panicked.
30:09Somebody who's panicked because they've accidentally killed somebody,
30:12and they've just put them in a shallow grave and driven back really quickly in a matter of half an
30:17hour or 50 minutes.
30:18You know, so even more suspicions that actually there must be some pre-planning in this.
30:24Police begin to suspect that Katie's murder was premeditated.
30:29In circumstances of this type of inquiry, you start to try and build a timeline that you can see almost
30:34down to the minute what is happening.
30:36And the officers, in this case, using the CCTV, using telephone calls, text messages, sightings, AMPR,
30:44all that kind of thing comes into your timeline to try and work out what's happened.
30:48And they also want to put that timeline against what Andrew Burfield is saying.
30:53Could he have done what he's done in the time that we can narrow him down to?
30:59And essentially where that starts is at the moment he leaves his house in that van
31:03to the moment that van arrives back, which is 51 minutes.
31:06Now they start to work out, well, hang on a minute.
31:08Let's look at what he says has happened.
31:11And, you know, I get there, I park up, it's a certain amount of distance to walk to where they
31:15had a picnic.
31:16We then get the picnic out, we then do this thing with the axe where this accident happens.
31:21We then go back to my van, I then do this, you know, I think about what I'm going to
31:26do.
31:26I then go and dig a grave for an adult body.
31:31And then I dig it enough that I can put the body in and throw stuff back over the top.
31:36It just didn't fit at all.
31:38There's no way.
31:38And even the officers in the inquiry team there did almost a rerun to try and go through things
31:45that he says has happened and worked out, obviously, straight away that it's impossible what he's done.
31:50It's, you have not dug that hole in the 10 minutes that you have said to us.
31:58It might have been longer.
32:00Right, okay.
32:01I don't know how long you're there, do I?
32:03I don't know how long you're there.
32:07And you're not long enough.
32:11But they need to work out now this is premeditated.
32:14What has he done in the days preceding when he said he accidentally killed Katie?
32:19This is a predator.
32:36Lancashire police are investigating the kidnapping and suspected murder of 33-year-old mother Katie Kenyon.
32:42Her on-off boyfriend, 51-year-old Andrew Burfield, was arrested after blood-stained bags were found at his workplace.
32:51Burfield claims he accidentally killed Katie while playing a game involving an axe.
32:56Seven days later, after her disappearance, police have released him from custody to show them where he buried her,
33:02now suspecting the murder was premeditated.
33:05The thing is, Andrew, you've told us a lot over the last few days, haven't you?
33:09And you've told us a lot, certainly today, a lot of information.
33:13And a lot of it just does not add up, okay?
33:18And ultimately, we don't believe you of what you've said.
33:22Do not believe that this has been an accident.
33:25This is about your control and your over-over Katie, and you're losing the control.
33:33Police examine Burfield's movements in the days leading up to the murder.
33:37One of the first things they see is CCTV the day before, the 21st of April,
33:42where he is seen clearly on CCTV borrowing a spade from his dad
33:48and putting it in that grey panel van with that distinctive black panel on the side.
33:54It helps to form that notion that perhaps he's gone and actually dug something beforehand.
34:01That does come to proof because what they do then is they then find CCTV in the day before
34:06going to the forest, to the exact same location.
34:09And on that particular occasion, this is where they believe he has dug in preparation for killing Katie.
34:19The police told Burfield that they knew that he'd been in the forest the day before.
34:24He had to think on his feet, really, and the story that he came up with
34:29was that he'd just had new brakes put on his van and he needed to bed them in.
34:32So he'd been up to the forest, testing his brakes, took his dog for a walk the night before.
34:39But the evidence at the crime scene told a different story.
34:43As the crime scene itself is being examined by the forensic teams,
34:48they notice two sets of footprints now in this grave that has been identified.
34:54One set of footprints has zigzags on, the other one is like a block print.
34:59So two sets of footprints don't match what Katie would have been wearing,
35:03either flip-flops or her trainers.
35:05So, you know, it indicates either two people there,
35:09which has to be a hypothesis for the investigating officer initially,
35:14or that someone has been there on two different occasions
35:19who owns two different pairs of shoes.
35:21What you could see on the CCTV footage the day before Katie was killed,
35:26when Andrew Burfield was collecting a spade from his father's address,
35:29was that he was wearing a certain type of trainer that has the zigzags on it.
35:34What they also found later on was that the block print of the print
35:39that was next to that grave matched his work boots that he also owned as a builder.
35:44So the indication then helped them again have that theory
35:49that he's been there before over two different occasions.
35:53The body is taken in for an autopsy,
35:56where the extent of Katie's injuries are revealed.
35:59When they took Katie's body off for a post-mortem,
36:03it was immediately apparent that he was lying.
36:06This was no accident.
36:07Katie had 12 different injuries to her head
36:10and some defensive injuries as well where she'd tried...
36:13..where there'd been a struggle.
36:14To the point where she's unrecognisable
36:17and the family don't even get to see her body
36:21because she's been too mutilated.
36:25There was no way that that was a game gone wrong.
36:30Everything that he says has happened has been proved to not be true,
36:34proved to be impossible,
36:36proved to be a timeline of which his timeline
36:38is completely and utterly opposite to the CCTV,
36:42to the phones, to the ANPR, to the witness statements,
36:46to what he's done at the scene in this beautiful forest.
36:49You know, everything doesn't match up.
36:51The evidence tells you one story.
36:53Andrew Burfield is telling you a completely different story.
36:57We're looking at a predatorial stalker here,
37:02a serial perpetrator,
37:04someone with no remorse whatsoever,
37:07someone with no empathy,
37:10someone who doesn't show any compassion
37:12to her children,
37:15to her mum,
37:17to her sisters,
37:20and he weaves this web of deceit remorselessly.
37:25The more the police dig into Andrew Burfield's background,
37:29they identify previous girlfriends
37:32and the situation that he had with them,
37:36the relationships he had with them were very similar,
37:38very controlling,
37:39a misogynist,
37:40you know,
37:41very nasty person.
37:43But what we also then find out
37:46is that he's on Tinder,
37:48he's on dating sites,
37:49he's been to places before
37:52where he knows that there is a woman
37:55who's living alone in a house
37:57and they need a builder.
37:59And he asks
38:01impertinent questions
38:02that ring alarm bells.
38:05So, are you living alone?
38:07Do you have a partner?
38:08Do you have a husband?
38:10And he needs this information
38:12in order to pick victims
38:14because that's what he's doing.
38:16He's picking victims all the time
38:18to see how he can manipulate them.
38:22There's evidence of him being a fantasist,
38:24a Walter Mitty type of character.
38:26He had potentially another relationship
38:28in Scotland with trips back and forth to Scotland.
38:31He claimed that he had
38:32a large property empire.
38:35She even says that you had said
38:37that you were going to buy a house
38:39and that you've got a portfolio
38:40of a number of houses.
38:45The way it's relevant
38:47is because it's about you, Andrew,
38:49and the fact that you have told lies,
38:51you tell lies to women
38:52and you're manipulating these relationships
38:55to control
38:56and you fantasize about a life
38:58that you would want to have.
39:00That's not a crime, was it?
39:03That's not a crime.
39:04Is it?
39:05Because we're building to the fact that
39:07this hasn't just happened on Friday
39:09as you have tried to account for this morning.
39:12What we're saying is that hasn't happened.
39:14Okay?
39:18Further evidence of his premeditation
39:20was discovered during the analysis of his phone.
39:23And what they see there
39:24is a series weeks before,
39:26two or three weeks before,
39:28where he is typing out responses of text messages
39:32premeditated to send to the children and family
39:34on his notes in his phone
39:36and that he would then transfer them
39:38from notes into text messages
39:40on the day that he killed her
39:42or the days after.
39:43This was his plan.
39:44So they could see that all those things
39:46were written weeks before in preparation
39:49to give a full story
39:50as to where Katie might be.
39:54Burfield left voicemails for Katie
39:56after he savagely murdered her
39:58in an attempt to deflect police attention from him.
40:13All these frantic things that he's doing
40:15around these messages
40:16and how he's supposed to be worried about her.
40:19Two minutes later,
40:20they see on his phone,
40:21he's texting other women
40:23saying what a great day he's having.
40:26You know, had a good day at work
40:27and allegedly sitting there
40:29watching the football as well on TV.
40:31Of course, this builds a picture
40:32that this man has premeditated,
40:34he's done what he thinks,
40:35he now thinks he's done enough
40:36to throw everyone off the scent
40:37and now he can relax.
40:39But obviously, little does he know
40:40that actually what he's doing
40:42is he's creating more and more evidence
40:43for the police
40:44to narrow down on him
40:45as being the person that killed Katie.
40:48Katie herself even had her concerns about you.
40:52She even told her own sister.
40:53And what she said to her sister was,
40:56if I go missing,
40:57it will be him, meaning you,
40:59who's done it.
41:01On the basis of all of the evidence
41:03that they had,
41:03the police felt confident enough
41:05to charge him with murder.
41:08The murder trial begins
41:09at Preston Crown Court in Lancashire
41:11on November 14th, 2022.
41:16Interestingly,
41:18he wanted a trial
41:20and that automatically
41:23makes you think
41:25the poor parents,
41:27the poor sisters,
41:29the poor children,
41:31they're going to have to listen
41:32to what happened
41:34to their loved one
41:35in graphic detail.
41:37Burfield was sitting in the dock
41:39and his demeanour never changed
41:40throughout the whole thing.
41:41He had very much a poker face on.
41:43He wasn't going to give anything away
41:45by his body language,
41:46but as the prosecution case
41:49came out,
41:50point by point,
41:51it was almost jaw-dropping.
41:54The levels of manipulation
41:55that he was using,
41:57the control that he was holding over Katie,
42:01the gaslighting,
42:02it was...
42:04You just felt enormous sympathy for her.
42:07She must not have known
42:08where her head was at.
42:10And then when it came out
42:12that he'd planned all of this,
42:15this wasn't an argument
42:16that had got out of hand.
42:17He'd gone to great lengths
42:19to ensure that this happened.
42:22With the writing of the text messages,
42:24the digging of the grave,
42:25it was...
42:27chilling.
42:30On the third day of the trial,
42:33we went to court
42:34and there was a huge delay
42:35and when Burfield was brought into court,
42:38they asked for the charge
42:39to be put to him again
42:40and at that point,
42:41Burfield pleaded guilty to murder.
42:45Andrew Burfield
42:46changed his plea to guilty
42:47three days into his trial
42:49for killing Katie Kenyon,
42:50who was from Paddyham.
42:52Burfield had claimed
42:53he killed Katie by accident.
42:55Yesterday,
42:56he changed his plea to guilty.
42:58The judge told the 51-year-old
43:00that he should prepare himself
43:02that he might die in jail.
43:05You know,
43:05it's often said in murder trials
43:07that, you know,
43:08murder requires malice of forethought,
43:10some form of premeditation,
43:11but that that premeditation
43:12can be formed in an instant
43:14before doing an act
43:15that is intended to kill
43:16or seriously injure somebody.
43:18Well, this is premeditation
43:20running back weeks and weeks
43:22at an absolute minimum
43:23and running over
43:24a pattern of behaviour
43:25where he has been coercive,
43:27controlling towards Katie
43:29and to others.
43:30So this is somebody
43:31that was effectively
43:32a ticking time bomb.
43:34I suppose, you know,
43:35if it hadn't been Katie Kenyon,
43:36it would have been somebody else.
43:37This was clearly
43:38a very, very dangerous,
43:40very sadistic,
43:41very cruel
43:42and entirely lacking
43:44in empathy individual
43:46because you look at the way
43:47that he tried
43:48to even deceive her family,
43:50you know,
43:51not even giving her family
43:52the kind of closure
43:53that they would have wanted
43:55either quickly
43:55or even trying to maintain
43:57this fallacy
43:58that she was alive.
43:59It's disgusting.
44:00His guilty plea
44:02was to save himself
44:04a little bit of time in prison.
44:06He doesn't care about anyone else.
44:08The court was packed
44:09on the day of sentence.
44:10Everybody wanted to see justice
44:12served to this evil, evil man.
44:15Burfield came into the dock
44:17and he looked
44:21a little bit crestfallen,
44:23I suppose,
44:23like he had finally been caught.
44:26but he wasn't getting away
44:28with this terrible thing
44:30that he'd planned.
44:33Andrew Burfield
44:34is then sentenced
44:35to 32 years in prison
44:37and that's a minimum term as well
44:39because of the dangerousness
44:41that he poses to the public.
44:44Burfield's life sentence
44:45is a relief for Katie's family
44:47but it will not bring her back.
44:50Katie Kenyon was a young woman
44:52who still had her whole life
44:53ahead of her.
44:54She should have been able
44:55to watch her children grow up,
44:56she should have been able
44:56to spend time in the community
44:58that she loved,
44:59you know,
44:59doing the simple pleasures
45:01that she seemed to adore,
45:02being out with family,
45:03being out with children,
45:04being out in the outdoors
45:05and nature.
45:06Burfield robbed Katie
45:07of the chance
45:08to live a healthy, long life,
45:10to be around the children
45:11that she loved so dearly
45:12and all of her family
45:14and the wider implications
45:15of this for her family
45:16and the community
45:17cannot be understated.
45:19I didn't know Katie
45:20but I got a feeling
45:22from her family
45:23and her friends
45:23and the photographs
45:24and everything
45:25that we'd seen
45:26that she was,
45:27she seemed lovely.
45:29Burfield was chilling
45:30to think of what she went through.
45:33It was absolutely heartbreaking.
45:38Andrew Burfield
45:39is a coercive
45:41and controlling,
45:42manipulative person
45:43and is a very dangerous,
45:45very evil man.
45:47and the indignity
45:48that he showed to her
45:50in the relationship,
45:52you know,
45:53carried on with the indignity
45:54in the way that he treated her
45:55after death as well,
45:57you know,
45:57leaving her
45:57in his hope
45:59that she would never be found
46:00in a forest.
46:09The forest of Boland
46:10is such a picturesque place.
46:13It's a real beauty spot.
46:15It's the last place
46:16that you would expect
46:17something so dark
46:19and chilling
46:20to take place.
46:21and the next place.
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