Teenager murders mum-of-two found buried in shallow grave named for first time
A teenager who murdered mum-of-two Lindsay Birbeck before using a wheelie bin to take her body to a cemetery where he buried her in a shallow grave can be named for the first time.
Killer Rocky Marciano Price, 17, can be named publicly after a judge lifted reporting restrictions at Preston Crown Court today.
Mrs Birbeck, 47, from Accrington, Lancs, was found dead in a cemetery 12 days after she went missing from her home last year.
Her body was found on August 24 by a dog walker whose dog ran off and led him to "what looked like a leg".
Price, of Accrington, was found guilty of Mrs Birbeck's murder on Wednesday.
A judge said the public are likely to want to know his identity to make sense of how such "a young person could do something so dreadful".
Mrs Justice Yip said there is a strong public interest in the case and continuing reporting restrictions would restrict the freedom of the press,
Rocky Marciano Price, 17, who can be named after reporting restrictions were lifted
Mrs Birbeck had left her home for a late afternoon walk to a nearby wooded area known as the Coppice.
She had invited her teenage daughter, Sarah, and Sarah's boyfriend for tea at 6pm but when she did not return her worried family raised the alarm.
Her attacker had been on the prowl in the woods for lone females and is thought to have killed Mrs Birbeck shortly after she entered the Coppice.
A post-mortem exam found the mum-of-two had died as a result of compression of the neck, with a 16-year-old boy - now 17 - accused of strangling her to death.
A jury reached a unanimous guilty verdict - exactly a year after Mrs Birbeck was murdered.
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